N97 How to sort contacts by company name

Is it possible to sort contacts by company name rather than first name,last name etc?

This is a HUGE shortcoming of Nokia's contacts app, which is still the most awkward and "old style numeric keypad telephone" oriented applications in the Nokia software suite on smartphones.
It's the only reason why I am still sometimes missing my Blackberry. There you find everything so quickly, and not only just typing in the individual's name, nor having to use that Nokia general search tool.
But now that Nokia FINALLY introduced a year ago "finding names typing", without launching the contacts application first I still have the hope that Nokia will release one day a REALLY user friendly, fast and flexible fully integrated agenda suite...

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SORT CONTACTS BY COMPANY NAME

Why don't my contacts sort the same way they are sorted in Outlook? We are a business, we need to sort by a company name not by contact name. Please help.

I don't work for Apple so I can't speak on their behalf as to their desire to infiltrate the business mobile market.
All I can do is tell you what the iPhone can and can not do and recommend work arounds for problems that you may be having. From what you have said, you require a feature that the iPhone does not support and the only work around is not satisfactory to you. Given that information, the iPhone is not a good fit for your business needs so you should look into a competing product.
No one product can be all things to all people. It is up to you to decide if having an iPhone is worth the sacrifices/work arounds necessary.

Is there a way to use an iPod Nano to sort contacts by Company name?

I own an iPod Nano and would like to use the Contacts feature to keep track of my business contacts. Is there a way to sort by Company name instead of by First or Last name?
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Found the answer on Ipod 101 page. No need to answer I'm set.

NOKIA 6120 Classic sorting contacts by company

Does anybody know how to sort contacts by company?
I have made a sync with MS Outlook, I now I have contacts with field "company". I wanna sort them by company, and then by name.
Tony
Thanks

Does anybody know how to sort contacts by company?
I have made a sync with MS Outlook, I now I have contacts with field "company". I wanna sort them by company, and then by name.
Tony
Thanks

Sort contacts by company in the address book dialog

Hi all,
When I create a new email, I click "to" to select the recipient. In the dialog box, I select my own address book (not the Exchange one), but I am not able to sort contacts by company. I only have display name and email columns. Right click does
not works.
I red this was not possible, but it seems weird that I can sort by company in the Exchange address book and not in my own AB.
Regards,
Seb.

Hi,
I can confirm that we cannot sort contacts by company in our own Address Books. As a workaround, we may use
Advanced Find beside the address book to find the people from a specific company.
Although Outlook is now a quite powerful tool, it is still not perfect. Outlook considers users' feeling very important and may make the change to make itself a more powerful and easy-to-use product.
Regards,
Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support

Sort contacts by company

I just bough the new Iphone 4. Can you sort contacts by company rather than name?

In iOS 4 and 5 you could do it by creating the company name first, saving it and then going back to add the first and last name. In iOS 7 it is not possible to sort by company name no matter what you do.

Sort Contacts by Company Workaround

I keep all contacts on the iPhone and do not sync. I create a complete contact record for each person and sort and display them by last name. I then create a "contact" for each company, putting the company name in the Last Name field. I then "Add Field" and use the "Note" field to list all contact names with their title. This works as a simple cross reference to look up contacts by company name, and then go to their detail information. It's actually quite easy when there are only a few contacts at each company.

Since I started the company "contact" concept after creating full details for some individuals, the first company entries contain only names in the Note field. Now, I'll start putting the company address in that record, and just phone numbers, email address, etc. in the individual contact entries.
Note: I originally synced with my Outlook contacts, but so much garbage came over that I decided to not do that anymore after an extensive cleanup on the iPhone, leaving a small file of about 200 contacts. I just discovered the Windows Address Book option, and have synced with that to give me a clean backup.

Workaround - Sort Contacts by Company

Until Apple provides an update to allow sorting contacts by company, I found a short workaround.
Simply create a new contact, entering ONLY the company name. Save completely out of it (tapping "Save" twice.) Go back into the contact, tap Edit, and enter any other information you would as usual.
The contact will then forever sort by company, not by name.
Cactus!

Another way to do this is after syncing. Your new addresses should sync with Address Book. Just go into Address Book, edit the contact and mark the check box that says Company.
I can't say that I do this every time I sync, but I just go down the list while I have a second or am sitting on hold waiting for somebody.

How can I change a company name in my Invoice?

How can I change a company name in my Invoice?

Sign in to your Adobe account using the Adobe ID linked to your company account and update the company details there.
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/account-password-sign-faq.html

I would like sort my contacts by company name.

The only way sofar to do this, is create a new contact and enter the company name only and save it. Then edit and add your contacts First and Last name and save again. Example enter Apple in Company and save. Then edit and enter John Dow and save again. Now it will sort by company name. If you enter John Dow and Apple all at the first time it will sort by the person only. I cannot believe there is not a more efficient way to do this or an option that can be used. Any body has found a better way jet?!!

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.

Sorting contacts by company instead of name?

I have had a few times where I need to contact a person from a certain company. I could not remember the name of the person but knew the company name. Seeing that I have a lot of contacts on my phone it takes forever to scroll through the list and click on every person I don't recognize to see if they work for the company. Is there a way to view by company or search by company so I don't waste a lot of time scrolling through my contacts? What would be great as well is some sort of grouping of contacts ie business,personal,family etc. Is there a way to do this?

There is no way to search anything other than name in the Contacts app (v3.0 will correct that, this summer). Contacts groups can be set up in Address Book on a Mac, and they are maintained on the iPhone, but that can't be done in Windows.
But, in the meantime, check out these App Store apps:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=300891442&mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=286543435&mt=8

Syncing Contacts by company Name

When I sync with Outlook 2003 Iphone strips out the data from the "file as" field for company contacts without a personal contact name in Outlook.
Also I have not found a way for iPhone to store/display by company name instead of personal name.
Is this just how it is or am I missing something?
Charles

It is kind of a pain, but I set up a seperate Contact Folder for my iPhone and changed the format of contanct information. I put the +Comany Name+ in the First Name Field (you can also use Last Name) and put the Contact Name in the Company Field. This sorts by Company Name. Whrer I have mutiple contacts at a company with direct lines adn seperate email addresses, i simple put a - and the contacts first name following the Comapny Name in the First Name field. Just make sure to set sync folder to iPhone contact folder.

Sort contacts by last name, not phonetic last name

When I try to sort my Contacts by "Last, First", iOS (version 5 on iPhone 4) actually sorts them by Phonetic last name, then phonetic first name. I have populated the Phonetic names of some people with deceptive name spellings so I can voice dial them, but obviously want them to sort by their actual listed spelling—silent letters and all. Is there a way to work around this problem or is this an Apple bug.

Basic searches for "sort phonetic iphone" turn up LOADS of gripes about the downside of using the phonetic fields (non-alphabetized sorting) which almost certainly outweigh the benefits of same field's use.
Look at these ARCHIVED discussions (TONS of views, no fixes replied with) on Apple's own support forums from YEARS ago. Why hasn't this obvious BUG been addressed in years worth of updates? Come on Apple!
Address Book Alphabetizes Names by Phonetic Spelling
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When entering a phonetic spelling in Address Book for a Contact's name that is hard to pronounce, Address Book files that Contact by the phonetic spelling instead of their real name. It is very odd to file Contacts this way; most people look up someone's name by the way it is spelled. It is too difficult to remember letters used to aid pronunciation when looking it up. For example, a common Vietnamese name 'Nguyen' is actually pronounced 'wen'. If I enter 'wen' in the phonetic spelling field, I will have to remember to look up Mr. Nguyen under 'W'.
Filing under the contact's real name would be best, but an option could be at least allowing a choice between the real and phonetic name; just like the choice of filing by 'Company' or 'Contact' that Address Book currently has.
Anyone figured a work around for this? I sent Apple feedback on the problem, but it hasn't changed in 3 years.
Address book -- turn off phonetic sorting?
120 Views 0 Replies Latest reply: Sep 10, 2009 8:48 PM by bryston
In order to make better use of the iPhone 3GS voice control dialing feature, I have add phonetic representations for some of my contacts. However, when I do this I noticed that the address app sorts these contacts by their phonetic spelling. (For instance the name 'Zhou' is pronounced 'Jo', and is sorted under the letter J).
This seems kind of weird default behavior and should at least be configurable. Anyone know some way to do this?
Thanks
MBP Unidbody, Mac OS X (10.6)

Sorting Contacts by company

Is there a way to view contacts by company. What I am trying to do is group multiple contacts by their company. I have chosen to view by "company, last name" but I would like to be able to search the company name to find the contact I seek.
Thanks in advance.
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DTfromBH wrote:
Use the Search tool. It's the magnifying glass on the keyboard.
Of course, in my case on my Treo 680, when I do that, the searching of the Contacts database doesn't even happen till AFTER the first screen is filled and it has searched
SheetToGo
Documents To Go
Word To Go
Pics&Videos
any Mobile DB databases (5 of them on that first screen)
Then I need to select "Find More," and it searches one more Mobile DB database, then finally gets to the Contacts database.
So, I finally see the contact that I want on the second screen -- only because I don't have a lot of contacts with that particular company name that I searched.
I select the contact. But, it then shows me the full view of the contact record, not the Contacts database list view. So, I have to choose "Done."
Then I can finally move the cursor down to the proper phone number to tell the Treo 680 dial it.
Not exactly convenient nor fast.
I believe this has changed from the way the Palm OS use to work. I think that if you wanted to find "Legacy Mortgage Company" with the older OS's that you could just type "Leg..." and be there. That was MUCH better. That is also the way it will still work on the Palm Desktop.
So, if you want it to go to Legacy Mortgage when you type "Leg..." you can move the contact name into another field, like making a first line of the "Title" field, and making the second line be the real title. But then, the contact name doesn't appear in the Contacts database list view at all. If you have ANY situation on your Palm where there are several contacts at the same company, that is not a good workaround, I don't think.
To make this situation all the worse and sillier that it works like this, the Palm Desktop works just the opposite. If you have a contact at Legacy Mortgage, you just type "Leg..." there and it takes you right to the record.
You would think Palm could at least be consistent.
If you sort by Company, Last Name, typing the first few letters of the company's name should take you too it, even it you do happen to have a name in the Last Name or First Name fields.
Why the hell did they change this? I've got 800+ contacts that I'll have check to see if I need to massage them around and change the fields where the name or company information is.
I was searching for ideas to this delima when I happened upon this thread. I'll keep looking to see if there are any real answers on the forum.
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is probably not for you.
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Post relates to: Treo 680 (Cingular)

IOS 7 Update Can't Map by Contact's Company Name???

Just updated my Apple Gear hoping I wouldn't regret it...
Being in outside sales, it was extremly helpful to be able to plan meetings based on the distance between two companies loaded in as contacts. So what I would do is open maps, click directions, and start typing the company itself. The contact info would load as if you were typing in someone name. The new software doesn't recognize the company as a searchable function if there is a name associated with it.
I know you can click the address while you load it up in contacts and get directions "to or from here", but when you're trying to map the distance between Company A and Company B you can't.
In business, searching by name is not as efficient since there are 50 Mikes in my phone and more often than not an employee is going to change before the company name will.
I see google maps can load by company name, but that scares me because it's not using my preloaded contact (confirmed) information. Which is risky to plan around unconfirmed addresses as well.
Has anyone found a way to have the maps app fix this? Am I missing something? I understand you're never going to please everyone but going backwards a step in usefulness? I'm sure there are other apps and stuff that can do this, but I was comfortable with the apple maps version and it's something that was previously achievable.
Thank you!

How about trying this...
Delete that contact from your Contacts app completely (maybe write down or copy the pertinent information to a Remember note first).
Reboot your device (powered on, remove the battery, reinsert battery)
Open your Contacts app and check for that contact, is it still there or completely deleted?
Check ALL your contacts lists (turn on your SMS contacts and all others, make sure all instances are deleted.
If so, add it back, skipping the Company field... does it self-populate again?
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