How do I alphabetize address book names

Some of the names are listed by first name and some are listed by last name - how do I fix this?

Try the Contacts/General preference pane:

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I just purchased a new laptop and have dowloaded Thunderbird for my e-mail as that was what I was using on desktop. I have 2 e-mail accounts, my personal e-mail addresses came thru with no difficulty however my other account the contacts in address book didn't come thru. So question is how can I get address book imported for this account too. My desktop is Windows XP and my laptop is Windows 8
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The neat thing to do would be to copy the profile from the XP machine to the W8 machine. This would have transferred your messages, your account settings and your Address Book and much else.
Given that you have set up Thunderbird and have started using it, copying over the profile may not now be terribly attractive for you.
So, instead, you can export and import your Address Books.
On the XP computer, open the Address Book, select an address book (e.g. Personal Address Book), select '''Tools|Export''', select the name and location of a file to contain the exported data, choose LDIF and then Save. Repeat for each required address book. Give your LDIF files simple but meaningful names, such as PAB.ldif and CA.ldif. Don't use, for instance, ''Personal Address Book.ldif'', as this will create a second address book with the same name as one of the defaults and you won't be able to easily tell which is which.
Put the exported LDIF files where the W8 computer can see them, e.g. a USB memory stick.
On the W8 machine, open the address book, Tools|Import and select an exported LDIF file. It will import and create a new address book; you'll probably want to move the Contact data back to the usual address book. You can select all (ctrl+a) then drag-and-drop the imported Contacts to the preferred address book. Repeat for each LDIF file.
Having said that, I don't understand what you mean by "my personal e-mail addresses came thru with no difficulty however my other account the contacts in address book didn't come thru"; unless you have moved the profile folder over, I don't understand why ''any'' contacts should have transferred.
If you have in fact moved the profile folder, then I'm puzzled as to why the transfer of address books has been incomplete. However the export and import route should be able to reclaim the missing address book(s).

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Does anyone know how to reinstall the address book in Lion?
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No - that didn't work. I have the error message in case that helps:
Process:         Address Book [2953]
Path:            /Applications/Other Apps/Address Book.app/Contents/MacOS/Address Book
Identifier:      com.apple.AddressBook
Version:         5.0.3 (883)
Build Info:      AddressBook-8830000~1
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [191]
Date/Time:       2011-07-25 10:24:41.714 +0800
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7 (11A511)
Report Version: 9
Interval Since Last Report:          220669 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           24
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   11
Anonymous UUID:                      083B7EEC-DCAD-401A-9503-5DED8470F702
Crashed Thread: 0
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found: ___appStartDate
Referenced from: /Applications/Other Apps/Address Book.app/Contents/MacOS/Address Book
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/AddressBook.framework/Versions/A/AddressBook
in /Applications/Other Apps/Address Book.app/Contents/MacOS/Address Book
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You probably can't, but you can start by posting your queston in the correct forums...the OS X Mail and Address Book forums, as this forum is for troubleshooting Apple Software Update for Windows, a software package for Windows designed to update Apple products that run on Windows, and not related to your question in any way.

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Why Mail displays the name and address instead of address book name?

File under the category of unanswered miscellaneous quirks by a new Mail user (the old posts were archived/locked)....
I have found that by eliminating any spaces in FIRST name field, the Address Book name appears w/ blue losenge (w/o the e-mail address).
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What locks up when you click System Preferences?
Is the Address Book application in your Applications folder? (The main one, not the one in your home folder)
What happened before it stopped working?
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If it does need reinstalling you should be able to do it as an optional installation from your installation DVD. Make sure to run the appropriate Combo updater afterwards, to bring it back up to date.
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Hi folks. Just wanted to know if anybody knew how to merge 2 address books. I don't mean two identical or similar contacts. Whole address books.
A duplicated, put into B machine. They both took on separate lives.
This is what I am thinking:
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Well, unfortunately, Address Book doesn't have a function to compare then only merge identical cards. Its four import options are Keep Old, Keep New, Keep Both, and Update. The Update option is closest to what you want, but it will assume that contacts with similar fields (like the John Q Public example I gave earlier) are the same person and will combine them into one (I found this out the hard way).
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