Contacts there but not really?

I just got an iPhone 4s.  This is my first Apple product and I'm learning the ins and outs.  I noticed today that my contacts seem to be doing something weird.  They are all still there, but it's like they're not.  When I text with people, the name I have for them in my contacts list does not show up, their phone number shows up like it's a new number that I don't have in my list.  So instead of my wife's name being there with the texts, her cell number is there.  I checked the users manual and all pictures of the text screens show a person's name in the banner, not a phone number.  Also, when I went to my contact list I saw that all of my phone numbers are not listed as (123) 456 7890 like the users manual shows; they are listed as 1234567890.  All of the digits are run together.  Does this have something to do with it?  Is this different than normal or is this normal for iPhones?  Thanks for any help someone can give me.

I don't know of a way to do them all at once. Maybe it's faster on a computer. It's good to get in the habit from now on to enter numbers that way. You can also just change the most common ones right now, and then little by little change the rest.

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