Listing my contacts by the last name

Right now my Droid phone lists all the contacts by the first name. It is in sync with my google email contacts that are listed by the last name. Can I change this so the contacts are listed by last name on my Motorola Droid. I know I can easily do a search, but I prefer scrolling down by last name. Any assistance you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Yes you can "sort" by Company Name BUT....you cannot "search" by Company Name -- when you try a search it just keeps searching in the "name" fields and does NOT return a Company Name.
--if you know the name of the person you want to call (which you more than likely will) then searching by name is fine
but
--if you can't remember their name (or there are multiple names) but want to look up the company and then scroll through list of names at that company -- forget it -- I can't make it work.

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I would like to use an AppleScript to delete all the "last names" of all contacts of address book. Anyone could help me with the code?
Thanks

No update will "kill your contacts" if you are syncing them to a supported address book or cloud service as intended.

How to arrange contacts in my Addess Book starting with the last name, re-doing them all at once, not individually. (I have 910 names in my Address Book).

This is a new computer. I see that my addresses have been arranged so that they read from the first name -- i.e. Jimmy Brown comes under 'J', not 'B'. I should like to put them all so that they read from the last name, first. I can do this individually but very much hope that there is a way that I can do ALL of them in ONE go? There are 910 addresses! Thank you very much, Frederica

First step is to set the address book to show last name and then the first.
Open the Address Book
Select View-Show Name As-Last, First
Then click on the column header labeled NAME to sort on that column.

Please tell me that I can sort my contacts by "Company,Last Name"

I just purchased a Treo 650
I depend on being able to sort my Contacts by "Company, Last Name" where is this preference feature on the Treo 650 in Contacts.
If this is not possible the Treo becomes useless to me.
Please tell me I am missing something.
Post relates to: Treo 650 (Cingular)

Yes you can "sort" by Company Name BUT....you cannot "search" by Company Name -- when you try a search it just keeps searching in the "name" fields and does NOT return a Company Name.
--if you know the name of the person you want to call (which you more than likely will) then searching by name is fine
but
--if you can't remember their name (or there are multiple names) but want to look up the company and then scroll through list of names at that company -- forget it -- I can't make it work.

Contact sort by Last Name

I know this question has been asked before, but it's been a while, and I'm hoping someone has come up with a solution.
My gmail contacts are sorted Last name, First name, but my contacts are sorted by first name. While this is extremely frustrating, to make matters worse, my car uses the list, lust it is sorted by first name.
Please, please, please tell me there is a way to sort the contact list by Last name.

bearone21 wrote:
within gmail contacts, more actions, sort by.....
Not quite sure that answers the OP question though! One solution is to download a free replacement dialer from the market, such as Dialer One, which allows the sorting of all contacts by Last Name, First Name

"From" name sometimes only contains the last name

When the from name contains a "," character the list contains only the last name. I attached a print screen. Please help me because I cant find any settings which can correct is.
If I edit this contact in my address book and delete the "," character, the problem is the same.

Try this information.
The yellow star adjacent to the 'From' name in the header tells me the person is in one of your address books. it is possible that the person is in your 'Collected Addresses' address book.
Locate the person in address book and double click on name to edit the details
OR
click on the 'From' header name and select 'Edit Contact' button
then click on 'Edit Details' button
You would have the 'First, Last, Display Name and email address completed.
The 'Display Name' is what you see in the 'From field of the header.
Select the option to 'Always prefer Display name over message header'
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Pagnation by the first letter of the last name

Hello,
I have a report that is Grouped by Cities and then Last Name. So New York is the city and then all the customers are listed below in Ascending order starting with the first customer who last name begins with the letter A and continues thru to Z and then the next City Starts with it's customers listed A thru Z.
What I need now is to have the report put the customers on a new page when the first letter of the last name changes. So New York will have it's cutomers with last names that start with A on page 1 and end on page 2 and New York customers with last names that start with B will start on page 3 and end on 5 and so on. How do I achieve this?
Thanks,
Heather

So if you have a last name field, and the names are in the detail section simply do this:
1 - Go to the section expert for the detail section.
2 - Click on the X-2 button to the right of New Page Before
3 - In the formula editor use the following (with your last name field instead of my generic fieldname):
not onfirstrecord;
LEFT (, 1) <> PREVIOUS (LEFT(, 1))
4 - Save & close the formula and OK out of the section expert.

Forename moved to the last name field

There is a problem with the last version of N Suite with outlook contacts. The first sync works fine, once you start a second sync, the forename (first name) is merged to the last name field on the suite AND on the Outlook side. The only way to correct it is to delete all contacts in NS suite, all contacts in the phone, all contacts in Outlook and restore the outlook contacts from a save. Then run the sync ONCE and switch it off. Going back to PC suite is the best until the issue is solved..

Hello Marc50,
Could you try to reproduce the error and provide us the system properties and log files?
Please follow the instructions to collect and submit the log files via this link http://tiny.cc/ja40z
Thank you in advance!
Cheers,
Marina
Nokia Suite team
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Address book when I let blank the last name?

Hello,
In my Address book when I let blank the last name.
It automatically recopy the last name to the first name.
If I delete it, it reaper a few minutes later?
How can I avoid that?

Sorry I forgot to write what application. I am printing from Contacts (the address book).

In address book, if I try to show first name before the last name, why do only a few names change?

Using address book on 10.7.2, when I go to "preferences" to change the display order between showing the "first name" before or after the last name, only about 25% of names will change. The rest all stay in the same order. Any ideas?

By default any outgoing email has the addresses saved in the Collected address book. You can turn this option off if you want.

How do I sort my address book by the last name, not the first name

AS I created my address book the names were added randomly to the address book. When I print out the address book the names come up with first name, Last name (all in random order alphabetically). I would like them to come up with Last name, first name, email address in alphabetic order by the Last Name. How do I get them sorted corretly??

Enable the menu in the Address Book. Then look at the options under View and Sort By.
More here on sorting: http://www.ramsden.org.uk/8_How_to_sort.html
And about menus here: http://chrisramsden.vfast.co.uk/13_Menus_in_Thunderbird.html

ICloud is not backing up my contacts for the last month or so. i tried turning it on and off but to no avail. suggestions?

contacts backup to iCloud
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if you can't get it to reboot then I would let it run out of power that result in a reboot if
the screen then don't comes on when you charged it again then I would say hardware defect
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I have a Samsung Convoy "dumb" phone, and I plan to keep it until Verizon forces me to some **** overpriced "smart" phone. Since they migrated Backup Assistant to "the Cloud", I am unable to print a hard copy list of contacts. The web site just runs you

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there is a point : no workie
how hard would it be to place my (or yours I am told) iPhone4S on a city block curb………..
and just walk away.. .. ..

Table where the last name and the first anme are stored

Hi ALL,
I would like to know the table in which the last name and the first name of the employee gets stored?

Hi,
You can use the table PA0002 for first and last name of the employee.
Please refer the below fields in table PA0002
First name- PA0002<VORNA>
Last Name-PA0002<NACHN>
Second Name-PA0002<NACH2>
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