Re: Outlook 2007 Contacts Sorting Problem when Company is (none)

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Russ,
Thank you for your quick response. I'm not sure what you mean by
"Preferences will not be applied to existing contacts only to new". Here's
more detail: I have all of my contacts in one folder. I prefer not to have
business contacts and personal contacts in subfolders. Everything works quite
well, my Sort order is Company name and then Last Name, First Name. This way,
all personal contacts are seggregated above the 123 tab, all business
contacts are broken down to each tab letter and are easy to navigate to.

This way personal contacts are not intermixed with business contacts. The
problem I'm experiencing is that the personal contacts are sorted in two
groups. The first is my old contacts and the second are any new contacts
(that is those that I create now).

I would prefer to continue to organize all contacts this way but am open to
suggestions if there is no way to have all contacts where Company is blank
grouped together. I would also appreciate knowing why preferences are not
applied to all contacts not just new. Is there a way to import (or by moving)
to make all old contacts be treated as new contacts?

Thanks for your time.
Dennis
"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Preferences will not be applied to existing Contacts. Only to those you
create. Why would you choose to sort by a field that is null? Makes no
sense.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Dennis" <Dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2331FFDF-D2DF-466D-991F-0B6436247235@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In upgrading to a new machine and installing Outlook 2007, contacts are
not
being sorted correctly. When View=>Current View=>Business Cards then all
Company (field is filled in) contacts are sorted correctly (Set up to sort
by
Company then by Last Name). BUT personal contacts (where Company field is
blank), old contacts (brought in by a COPY from previous PST) appear first
while New contacts (added now) appear below the last old personal contact.
When looking at contacts in the View=>Current View=>by Company, Outlook
shows
two groups of Company:(none) (xxx items), the first is the old contacts
while
the second are the newly added contacts.

Does anyone know of a way to group the contacts where Company is none? I
have tried export/import, deleting and moving back all to no avail. Thank
you


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