Address Book Sorting

Using BES, Curve 8330 on 4.5 and Outlook 2003 Exchange...
Any time I enter an address in my Curve, it will sync perfectly with Exchange and sync with my outlook contacts.
However, every time, it will sort by last name, first name.
I've told the BB device to sort by first name, last name. Outlook is setup the same way. First then last.
It gets irritating looking for a contact that I put in..only to realize it's stored in Outlook Last then first.
It is stored in my phone correctly.
If I create the contact in Outlook, by defaut it's first then last name....perfect. It's only blackbery entered contacts that sync with Outlook.

Double check in outlook
tools- options- contact options
Default "FILE AS" is set to first, last
then go into your contacts and make sure they are STILL first last
if not you will open each one that is not and change "FILE AS" to first last manually(the reason for this sometimes switching back is because of the switching in the previous step, which needs to be right to resolve your issue)
on BB open address book- menu- options- general options
make sure SORT BY: is set to FIRST NAME

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I noticed today a strange behaviour of the print function in Mac Os X Mountain Lion Address Book.
I have to print the entire contacts list.
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So I tried to print ad with my big surprise all the contacts are totally mixed!
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At the moment I thought that I made a mistake in some settings.
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Maybe is very well hidden........
Can anybody help?

https://discussions.apple.com/message/19330865
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In one Ekchange organization with a single address book, there are Russian-speaking people and English-speaking users.
American counterparts, in comparison with Russian not so much. Hence there exists a naming standard in which:
Displayname - Cyrillic (Russian), but "FirstName" and "Lastname" - Latin (English) and the attribute "Name" - Latin.
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I have OS 10.5.8 on my MacBook Pro.
Despite setting the preferences, I see that my address book does not sort by first name. Any idea why this is happening?
Thanks.

Hmmm. Works here. Are you syncing with anything? Are the names entered correctly? (If you click the Edit button in the bottom of AB's window, does anything show in the First Name field?)

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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.
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So far I've been trying to find out what comes after "Z" in the sort order, but have been unable to do so.
It's not following ANY standard sort order that I've been able to determine.
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I think my only comment at this point can be "my, that escalated quickly!!".
Thanks for the pointers and information. Unfortunately, I'm now lost in too much mostly incomprehensible information. However, the tr03.pdf doc you provided I think had the answer.
If I understand it correctly, this (new to me) sorting mechanism means that nothing comes after Z any more? (based on the PDF file you gave me, part 3.0 intro, order of characters). Is that correct?
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I'm sorry, but I'm still not clear on the problem. Do you mean that you have both "Smith Family" and "John Smith" tied to the same email address? If so, again, that "friendly" name isn't sent to the recipient, so the person receiving the email will get exactly the same thing regardless of whether you select the "Smith Family" entry or the "John Smith" entry. The "friendly" name doesn't go along as part of the email.
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'View' > 'Show name as' > 'Last/First'
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'View' > 'Sort By' > choose 'Name' and 'Ascending'

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Address book does not sort correctly

I have not been able to get the address book to sort correctly. If I go Preferences/General/Sort by Last Name, it only sorts about half. I discovered that the ones that don't get sorted are ones that have had the "Swap first/last name" function applied to them. This appears to be only cosmetic. How do you make the first/last switch permanent?
I thought that exporting them out and then importing would get around that but when exporting from Address Book it also ignores any first/last switches you may have done.
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Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Bneely, thanks for the reply. It still doesn't solve the problem though. If what you are saying is the case then the switch should be an option in Mail, not the address book.
Example: Our office in Switzerland sends us their addresses via Vcard. Most of Europe (like Japan) displays their cards reversed from ours. I get hundreds of addresses that don't sort correctly unless I manually retype them in their address cards. That is a waste of time (and certainly a waste of a G5). In addition to the temporary switch there needs to be a "Permanent Switch" button. Or at least a more intelligent sort function. Thanks. -dr
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I noticed that, after I installed Snow Leopard, the address book I access in Mail does no longer show entries sorted by last names although I set the the address book I access from the dock to do so and it works fine. I thought they're one and the same. How come there is this discrepancy and is there a way to resolve the issue?
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Frank,
The Address Book application opened from the Dock responds to its preference setting for this sort. Quit Mail, and then confirm the sort you want to see in the AB application -- you can choose not only Last Name sort, but whether Last Name appears before First Name, as I am sure you know.
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