File contacts by Last Name or Company Name.

On MobileMe you where able to file contacts by Last Name or Company Name. Not able to do that in iCloud. Is there someway to do that?

Rafael is correct in that the old Mobile Me, you could choose by individual contact whether the entry was sorted by Company or last name (or first name?). There are many business contacts where I may not remember the account reps name. I want the item sorted by company but have the acct reps name included.
Now with iCloud they are overriding that option. You can only have it sort by Business Name if there is no individual's name in the contact info.
This is the common complaint that supoprts that Apple still doesn't get the Business aspect of using the software.
Here they had the feature and someone removed it.

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We are running into a strange issue someone may provide some light on, I've researched quite a bit online with no success, and may soon be calling Microsoft on this one. Sometime earlier this year we installed Exchange 2010 Update rollup 4, then UR5, after
that when you create new contacts in outlook 2010, no matter how you choose to 'file as', when you pull up the contact in the address book it always contains the company name after the persons name. It doesn't seem to matter how you file the contact, it always
appears with the company name in the name field in the address book (and therefore pulls that into any mail merge).
anyone else run into this issue or know how to fix it? I included screenshots below....
thanks for your help all.
here is the contact in address book, showing company name no matter how its filed.

Hi,
I can reproduce the same issue here. Here is what I did to fix this:
1. Open a problematic contact.
2. In the Full Name field, type a space and then click Save & Close button.
3. Now, go to Address Book, you will find that the company name is removed.
Based on my deep research, I find a macro can be used to update the Full Name info, when I run the macro, the company name is removed from all problematic contacts in Address Book. See the code sample:
Sub UpdateContactFullName()
Dim FileAsFormat As String
Dim CurrentFolder As Outlook.Folder
Dim objItem As Object
Dim objItems As Object
Dim objContact As Outlook.ContactItem
Set CurrentFolder = Application.ActiveExplorer.CurrentFolder
If CurrentFolder.DefaultItemType = Outlook.olContactItem Then
Result = MsgBox("Update the Full Name field for all " & _
"your contacts according to your default " & _
"Full Name settings in Outlook?", _
vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Update Full Name field")
If Result = vbYes Then
Set objItems = CurrentFolder.Items
For Each objItem In objItems
If objItem.Class = Outlook.olContact Then
Set objContact = objItem
'We need to touch something in one of the name
'field to force a rewrite of the Full Name field
'according to the default Full Name settings.
objContact.FirstName = objContact.FirstName
objContact.Save
End If
Next
Result = MsgBox("Finished updating the Full Name format of all contacts." _
, vbInformation, "Done!")
End If
Else
Result = MsgBox("Please select a Contacts folder." _
, vbCritical, "Select Contacts folder")
End If
Set CurrentFolder = Nothing
Set objContact = Nothing
End Sub
Reference link:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/contactnameformat.htm
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Steve Fan
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No hack necessary. Here's how to do it. When you enter the contact into your phone, enter JUST the company name and phone number, and then tap Save. Then, you can go back in and add other information like name, address, etc. When saved first with a company name only and not a last and first name, you'll notice that the little icon of the face turns instead to some buildings, indicating that the phone sees that contact as a company and not an individual person. That contact will then show up in the list by the company name instead of the person's name.
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Knowing that most of the contact managers contains company names (and you use it to search a company, not a name - you know your insurance person ? - ).
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In that case their points are not applied to their company whole and when the new changes come out they would not be listed as part of that company.
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The way we are doing it now is still riddled with the problems that people use their "local" email instead of the global company one or even worse they have no global company one and only local ones so for the company with 120 people spread across 4 countries they all show up under 4 different companies.
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