Sorting Contacts

Is it possible to sort the contacts by last name vs. first name. Thx

Unfortunately, that feature is not available on the Samsung Fascinate. I have provided a link for addtional information.
Click here http://androidforums.com/fascinate-support-troubleshooting

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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,
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.

Sorting Contacts on iPhone

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

You can't sort your contacts by anything but name directly on the phone, but a little work on the computer can give a result that might work. I create groups in my contact manager that syncs to the iPhone. I can put people from different businesses in different groups. That way I can choose a specific group to look through, rather than all the contacts. It also works to separate out family and friends, etc. But you can't create the groups on the phone, only on the computer, and then sync them to the phone.

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...

Sorting Contacts on iPod by Business

Hi, my father and I own a business and i'm giving him my iPod. He has a Windows PC and uses Outlook and likes the idea of having an all-in-one gadget for music and contacts, but we've hit a problem along the way. How do I sort the contacts by business, instead of a First/Last name basis?
Thanks,
Mark.
Mac Mini 1.25 512MB RAM Mac OS X (10.3.9) Ipod 4G B&W 20Gig

I'd also like to be able to sort contacts by Business->User (like iTunes does with albums->songs).
Address Book also needs some kind of "Business"-merging of all people inside a single business (so we don't have to repeat all information such as fax, URL, address, etc).

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 on iPod by Company

Hi, my father and I own a business and i'm giving him my iPod. He has a Windows PC and uses Outlook and likes the idea of having an all-in-one gadget for music and contacts, but we've hit a problem along the way. How do I sort the contacts by company, instead of a First/Last name basis?
Thanks,
Mark.
Mac Mini 1.25 512MB RAM Mac OS X (10.3.9) Ipod 4G B&W 20Gig

I'd also like to be able to sort contacts by Business->User (like iTunes does with albums->songs).
Address Book also needs some kind of "Business"-merging of all people inside a single business (so we don't have to repeat all information such as fax, URL, address, etc).

Ability to sort contact in palm

I recently was upgraded to 6.2.2
It appears the that the ability to sort contacts by first names is gone?
Can it be recovered?
Post relates to: Palm IIIe

Sounds like you should organise all your folders by date order and give them a descriptive name, That way you can find things far more easily. Then you should keyword the pics so you can find within entrire library.
here's a fictitious set of folders to demonstrate.
2008/
2008-01-January/
2008-01-29 Gardening
2008-01-29 Night Out
2008-01-31 Trip to Zoo
2008-02-Febuary/
2008-02-01 Dog's birthday
2008-02-03 Cat's Birthday
2008-02-03 Race Meet
This structure as shown above is also good in that it will survive different programmes and even different OSes. Are you going to rely on Adobe, let along LR being around in 30yrs time? One should never let a programme dictate your fundamental filing structure - iPhoto, iTunes yuck, messy.
I also try and separate out differing shoots from each day as I'm hardly likely to want to look through gardening and night out shots together and it also speeds up individual folder rendering.
This specific structure is designed so it will always correctly arrange by date, do this and your problem is solved as LR simply imports your folder structure.
I've used this for a long time now and it's very robust.
Though
2008 - 02 - 17
also works as does
2008_02_17
just be consistent with what ever suits you.
I prefer using dashes to underscores, more readable and easier to type and I think this method
20080117
is stupid/useless [unless you are a computer].
I use Bridge to import from Cards [LR sucks at importing as it doesn't copy all file types] and you can set Bridge to place images in folders by date shot automatically.

How can i sort contacts according to company name on my iPhone

how can i sort contacts according to company name on my iPhone

That is not a sorting option in the built in app. There are other apps in the App Store that can access your contact information. Perhaps there is one that will let you do that.

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

Any way to make address book sort contacts in 2 (or more) languages?

Any way to make address book sort contacts in 2 (or more) languages?
It is very very annoyin that address book sorts contacts only in one language (the one selected as as a system wide) and puts any entries in other languages under #

Fast Contacts well let you sort by nickname or a lot of other ways. It's on sale - free today!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fast-contacts/id286543435?mt=8

Any way to make the iPhone sort contacts by nicknames or something close?

Hi
As a happy iPhone user, there are a few things that I'd be glad to see some changes on.
One of these is more options regarding the contacts. Say, I like just the first name or the nickname of my friends and family show up when I call or text, but at the same time have the person's full name stored. What I wanna do is I want to be able to add my parents full name, and then just "Mom" and "Dad" under nickname or whatever, and make the iPhone sort and show them by that. Currently it doesn't look like the phone will let me.
So, is there any app or whatever that could workaround this problem, or do you think Apple would implement this in a future update?
Thanks
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Fast Contacts well let you sort by nickname or a lot of other ways. It's on sale - free today!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fast-contacts/id286543435?mt=8

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!
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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?
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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?
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Sort Contacts by [First Name, Last Name] on Phone

I currently have all of my contacts in Outlook saved and "Filed As" First Name, Last Name. When I go to sync with the phone (through iTunes), the phone still shows all my contacts sorted as Last Name, First Name. I have tried deleting my contacts completely several times to no avail. I am so used to searching by first name first. Can someone please help?
BTW, I did try searching the forum first. Most threads discuss the use of Address Book, which seems to provide a solution. I have not found any solutions to this problem using Outlook though.
Thanks,
Brian

On the iPhone, go into settings/Mail Contacts Calendar and choose sort order under "contacts" as "first, last".
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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.

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