showing first name first

[Guest exosceleton]

hello everybody,

is there any way to sort the contact list by first name, not last name.

the only way i've found is by setting the "display as" in outlook, and then sync-ing my ppc orange m500. win mobile 2003

sorry if this has been discussed before, ive searched a little but the keywords are too common

[Guest marksurry]

I have the same problem with my contacts. I also rectify this in the same way, via outlook and activesync.

There MUST be a way to do it on the handset!

I use the M500 too.

[Guest Confucious]

AFAIK that is the only way to do it.

A pain isn't it?

[Guest exosceleton]

yes it is!

[Guest marksurry]

Yeah, I agree, a pain, stupid phone :)

[Guest exosceleton]

if only we could do without....

[Guest marksurry]

.....don't be daft. If I had no mobile phone my life would fall apart. I don't know peoples numbers, address' and I need the phone to remember what my freinds look like :)

I was hoping to get my M500 grafted into my hand. The doc said I was crazy :D

[Guest tripdog]

Hi

think i mght be able to help.I had the same problem. after some fiddling with my device I fuond this is how to get round the problem. when you enter a name into your contacts list ,the surname by default is shown first. A way round this can be done by choosing a contact then tap edit on the bottom of the screen, on the top line where the name is tap on the curser on the right the box will drop down like this:

title ____________

first john smith

middle____________

last ____________

suffix ____________

enter your contacts first and second name on the second line down, your contact will then be displayed with first name in front of surname.

Edited February 4, 2006 by tripdog

[Guest Pigo]

I hope somebody can make a tweak arround this.

i have a vario and it bug's me aswell. But I like the separation of first and last name. My C500 displayed it the way you chose it to do. why can't the same be done for a PPC?

Pigo

[Guest chucky.egg]

I can't vouch for this, but I stumbled on it over at

PocketPCTweaks.com

set Display name in Contacts:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\contact\cproghook]

"FL"-> Set 0 if LastName then FirstName, 1 if FirstName then LastName

[edit]

Doesn't seem to exist on my WM5 Prophet

[/edit]

Edited February 6, 2006 by chucky.egg

[Guest Confused Stu]

Just tried it on my M500, and there isn't a "contact" key within the "SOFTWARE" bit so it looks like a dud on WM2003SE too.

Cheers for the attempt though Chucky.

[Guest Pigo]

Not on Vario either... would like this solved actually :cry:

Pigo

[Guest chucky.egg]

Only other solution I can see is changing the "File As" setting in Outlook to FIRST LAST, rather than the default of LAST FIRST

If you've got lots of Contacts that might be a pain, so you could try the following code in Outlook:

Sub FileAs_First_Last()


    Set objOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")

    Set objNameSpace = objOutlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")

    objNameSpace.Logon

    Set objFolder = objNameSpace.Folders("[b]Chucky Egg[/b]").Folders("Contacts")

    NumItems = objFolder.Items.Count

    

    For i = 1 To NumItems

        Set objContact = objFolder.Items(i)

        If Not TypeName(objContact) = "Nothing" Then

            If objContact.FullName <> "" Then

                objContact.FileAs = objContact.FullName

                objContact.Save

            End If

        End If

    Next

    

    MsgBox "All contacts should now be 'Filed As' Firstname space Surname"

    

End Sub

You need to insert this code in VBA in Outlook (press ALT+F11 to get into the code editor, then insert a new module and dump that code into it). You'll need to change the Chucky Egg part to whatever your name is in Outlook.

[Guest exosceleton]

thanks chucky!!! i'm probably not going to use it, dont have that many contacts.

But your code illustrates nicely:

It must be possible to program something that will run on ppc that will do this.

Well... i cant do it so i shouldn't whine too much.

Edited February 20, 2006 by exosceleton