Change display of contacts to first name, last name in outlook 2003

Microsoft Outlook is an email application that can be used as a stand-alone program or with Microsoft Exchange Server.

Many companies and businesses choose Outlook as their preferred email client.
Features of the program include the ability to manage a calendar, contact list, task list and journal.

Outlook contains folders for components such as the Inbox and Calendar.
These items have a view assigned to them determining the colors, fonts, fields and many more settings that control how the items appear in each folder.

Create the menu tab on your homepage right click in the top toolbar you should see a number of toolbar options select the menu tab which will add File Edit View Favorites Tools and Help

New views can be created and assigned to folders to change the way the folders are viewed.
Click on "View" from the top menu, and select "Current View."


Select "Define Views," and click "New."
Type a name in the "Name of new view" field.


Select the view type that you would like from the "Type of view" box.
Select the option of where you want the view to be available under "Can be used on," and click "OK."


Select the options you wish to use in the "Customize View: view name" box, and click "OK."
Click "Apply View" to begin using the new view.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA101209011033.aspx?pid=CH100777471033

You set the default for new contact in Tools->Options->Contact Options->Default 'File as'.

You can set each individual contact. Double-click the contact to display the contact page and set the File-as field.

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To setup up contacts by the person's last name. In Outlook, when you compose a new message, and then click the To or Ccbutton, the Contacts list may display names that are sorted by the contact's first name. Here's how you can change the list to display entries by the contact's last name.
Sort the Contacts list by the File As field

1. Start Outlook.
2. On the Tools menu, click E-mail accounts.
3. Click View or change existing directories or address books, and then click Next.
4. Click Outlook Address Book, and then click Change.
5. Under Outlook Address Books, click Contacts: Mailbox -YourMailboxName, and then under Show names by, click File As (Smith, John).
6. Click Close, and then click Finish.

Verify that the newly created contacts are filed in last name, first name order

1. On the Tools menu, click Options.
2. Click the Preferences tab, and then click Contact Options.
3. In the Default "File As" order list, click Last, First.
4. Click OK twice.
5. To view the new Contacts list sort order, restart Outlook.

NOTE If you want to display a particular contact in a different order than the rest of the Contact list, you can modify the File As field in individual contact cards. For example, you may want to sort some contacts by the Company field.

As annoying as it may be, you might just have to choose the portion that is more important to you - Outlook or the Blackberry. I'm assuming it's the BB.

Since Outlook is different then Outlook Express, you would more than likely have to alter the business contact information in Outlook to make it transfer properly to the BB.

It is a database and not CSV format I'm assuming (comma separated value) format coming from Outlook, but in the process is reads it as a CSV file it seems.

Test it out by entering a dummy business contact and seeing what needs to be where to make it work on the BB.

Since it doesn't have an open source code, I doubt it can be tweaked aside from that.

Do you remember when you imported the output from your BB? One of the last steps after you have chosen the file to import shows a button for Map Custom Fields. Choose that button and then drag Full Name from the left side to FIRST NAME on the right side. When I did that, Outlook shows them in order of First name.

Because your previous import mapped FullName from BB to Last Name, that's the way it's showing. I tried within Outlook to change it around and it would not change it for me either.

To Reset your viewes in Outlook , use this Run Command
Make sure you close Outlook

Start > Run > Outlook /Safe

You're probably using Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007. Something / Someone ran a cleanup routine on your machine and clobbered outlook's name cache. This is genrally not recoverable.

Also, go into outlook setting, find "auto-complete" (not for words, but for addresses", and turn it on...

go to file in the outlook.
click on import and export
select import from another program of file, click next
select Microsoft Excel 97-2003, click next
type in or browser for the Excel file you want to import, and select don not import duplicate items. click next
select destination folder-contact folder click next
***********To add or remove fields to determine the way the contact information is saved in the new imported file,***********
click on map custom field.
click and drag the item in the left panel to the right panel, where you want the item to appear.
click finish.
if you don't like the way the items imported. just hight all of the items that was imported in the contact folder and press deleted.
you can start again.

if you still have problem. go to the follwoing link
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA010964231033.aspx