Sorting Contact's List

The sorting order that my contact's list defaults to is first names. Is there a way to set it to last names permanently?

Not at the moment, no. You can select to sort by last name when you are in the Contacts app, but that will reset the next time you reload the app. Hopefully RIM will address this in a future software update.
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Contact sorting broken in "Lists" print option?

Wanted to print a simple contact list out of Address Book / er um... "Contacts".
If i select "Mailing Lables", "Envelopes", or "Pocket Address Book" everything seems to work as it should.
However, if i select "Lists" the sort-order of list is completely messed-up. I can't even make a guess at what criteria it might be trying to sort by, but it certianly isn't the names.
Replicated the issue on my iMac running Mountain Lion as well.
Anybody else seeing the same thing?
ML bug or just something whacked w/ my contacts?

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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.

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.
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HT4623 My contacts are listed by telephone numbers instead of names in my messages since I upgraded to OS8? How can I change it to names?l,

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Under Settings->Messages->Send & Receive
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Sorting singly linked list with minimum time complexity

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By MergeSort or QuickSort O(n log n). But then you
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Contact phone list in Nokia 6555

I just upgraded my 2 LG1400 phones that I had for 3 years to 2 Nokia 6555s & am suppossed to receive them tomorrow by FedEX.
In the LG1400, you had an option of keeping your Contact phone list either on the Sim card or in the phone itself.
I preferred keeping them only in the phone because it allowed you to list several phone numbers for each contact.
However, since it was not saved on the Sim card, all of your contacts were lost if you ever had to remove your Sim card for whatever reason (which returned the phone to its inital state each time).
Saving the list to the Sim card was much safer, but it made you enter a different contact for each phone number of a particular contact. i.e.- if 1 contact had 3 phone numbers, it required 3 separate entries.
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ALL WENT PERFECTLY!!!!
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Of course, that now means that every entry in my contact list shows up twice. But, I can easily cure that by deleting the contact list from my phone memory & leaving it only on the SIM card.
Since my contact list on my old LG1400 was only on the SIM card, that is where I think I will leave it for a while.
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Can we sort saved report list by name

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Narender wrote:
Hi,
I have interactive reports and users can open this interactive report and according to their different requirements they can save this report(as a public) with different names.
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In contacts- can I get my contacts to list by compnay name instead of individual names

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As explained here, have your friend turn off Find My iPhone (iPad).
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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,
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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.
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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.

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Is it possible to sort contacts by "company" rather than by first or last name?

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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.
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