Contact sync problem

I synced contacts to my new Nokia 5310 Xpress Music. And in my contacts list people got listed by their first names and as I have over 500 contacts, this became very inconvinient. Is there any way to put the last names in the first place?

rvia, what is your phone type ?
(if one keeps changing the synchronisation "type" from:
- update both direction (in my mind the only selection that should be used, because it is real sync and after first sync only changes are synced, nothing else)
- update only one direction
You end up confusing the sync anchors on both sides, Pc and the device and the software has no other alternative tha to keep on reading "everything everytime" and make comparisons between the items on both sides and try to avoid duplicates AND not to delete anything.
And now it seems you have done it so many times, the phone starts to freeze.
My recommendation is you delete everything from phone (assuming you have all the recourds in PC side) and the connect phone and create new sync settings (Pc Sync - Settings- Create new ones. NOTE! this is important, othervise sync will think you want to delete PC records also)
When you create new settings, use theupdate both direcitons and never change the settings after the first sync, that will ensure flawless result of sync

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