2720: Address Book sort order - "first/last" versu...

My 2720 cannot make up its mind whether to list my contacts by last name or by first name. Some are Bob Smith while others are Smith Bob.
I can see the problem. When I go to edit Smith Bob, I have two fields: First name and Last name. When I go to edit Bob Smith, I see that I have only one field: Name.
I suspect the discrepancy is because some would have been ported from an older phone.
My question: is there a way to fix this that's not mind-bogglingly tediously deleting them and re-adding them? (I can't simply edit them, since they're stuck in the format they came in.)

Any contacts that are stored on the SIM card (or that have been copied to the phone memory from the SIM card) will have only two fields: name and number, because that's all a SIM card is capable of storing. Likewise, some phones made by other companies (my old Sony Ericsson K800i was an example) also don't have two fields for the name, so contacts transferred from a phone like that would be the same, so you are probably right to guess that the contacts copied from an old phone would have one-field names.
There is no easy way to split a name into two fields, but using the Communication Centre in PC Suite to edit contacts is slightly easier. You still need to do each affected contact individually, but it is quicker and easier through a PC interface than in the phone itself.

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