Hi,
as it is, contacts stores Last name, First Name.
I would like to change that to First Name, Last Name.
Maybe some registry hack?
Thanks
WM6, TMOBILE
i think you can do that on Outlook... Display as FirstName LastName
its a per contact thing. edit a contact and change "file as" to how you want it. I remember easily changing all my contacts in outlook on the pc and then syncing it to the phone.
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Is there a way of tweaking the People Tab in Touchflo to display the "file as" field of the contact in the text, rather then the contacts first name. It was one of my fave features of SPB Mobile Shell.
I think it depends on how you have your contacts entered in your address book. Mine are all synced from Outlook and the File As is set to "First Last", and that's how my People tab shows it. If you open up the MS contacts app on the phone, edit a contact, there should be a File As drop-down. I think by default it's Last, First or possibly just First if you don't have a last name entered.
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I think it depends on how you have your contacts entered in your address book. Mine are all synced from Outlook and the File As is set to "First Last", and that's how my People tab shows it. If you open up the MS contacts app on the phone, edit a contact, there should be a File As drop-down. I think by default it's Last, First or possibly just First if you don't have a last name entered.
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Yeah, I have fileas set to First Last too, but for certain contacts in Outlook, such as buisness addresses, I don't put anything in the name fields, just the buisness field. Outlook then automatically sets the Fileas field to the buisness name instead.
At the minute, Touchflo just looks for the entry in the First Name field and shows that - I want it to show whatever is in the Fileas field instead. I'm currently using version 2.5, or Leo I think its codenamed.
Ah, yeah. I ran into that issue too. I ended up just having to copy the business name into the First name field in Outlook. Not the best solution, but it worked for me.
Aye, SPB used to be able to do it, so its not a fault with Windows mobile itself - there must be someway to tweak the registry or reverse the polarity or something.
I exported my contacts from gmail and imported them into Outlook (I'm attempting to sync the contacts from my Android phone onto my Windows Mobile phone), however when I bring them into Outlook, anyone who's name was split up (for example "John Smith") it refiled as "Smith, John" so when I then sync that to my phone, it's displayed everyone with their last name first. This makes it impossible to find anyone and I want them to all show with their first name first, ie. "John Smith" but the only way I've found to do that is to click on each contact individually and change it.
Is there a better/faster way to make all of them just show up with their first name first? If not, let me know if you're interested in buying a Touch HD, because it's pretty much useless if it's gonna rename all my contacts every time I sync.
Try Shubaroo Contact Changer, it doesn't change anything except the "File As" value so they all appear First, Last.
Hi all,
I have just observed that my contacts are wrong, and I need to change between first <-> last name in them (they originate from a sony-erricsson phone).
Is there a tool to do the exchange automatically? Either in the phone, or inside outlook?
There is always the option to do it manually, but they are around 130 contacts...
hi petasis
i had the same problem and found the solution in MSoutlook (2k3)
go to Tools > Options > Preferences tab > Contacts Options button
there u can change how your contacts are displayed and saved
You can export your contacts from Outlook as a Windows CSV file, then modify that file using Excel and import it back to Oulook after deleting all old contacts, so they don't duplicate. The disadvantage
petasis said:
Hi all,
I have just observed that my contacts are wrong, and I need to change between first <-> last name in them (they originate from a sony-erricsson phone).
Is there a tool to do the exchange automatically? Either in the phone, or inside outlook?
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Yes there is.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=549477
Thank you for all your replies, but I don't want to simply change the "file as" (how the contacts are displayed). I want to change the actual contacts, as the first name field contains the surname (and the opposite).
Hi
Do I have a bug here or am I not doing something right?
I have my People contacts set up:
Only contacts with phone numbers: Off
Sim (0): Off
Google (1): Off
Phone (77): On
Facebook (140): Off
Then in each of my contacts I have linked the phone contacts to the Facebook accounts. All is fine, photos are displayed etc. For some of the contacts, their names are displayed like
Firstname Su
due to the length limitation of when I imported them from my old device, via the Sim. No problem, I think, you can go into the "Linked" screen, and change the drop down for "Select Contact Name" and select the Facebook name.
Now some time later I have noticed that some, not all, of my contacts have reverted back to the shorter "Phone" name.
I could edit each of these names to be equal to the Facebook name, but this was ok earlier?!
I got the same problem. I keep changing their names to their facebook names repeatedly
Yep seems to be a bug with the phone.
Thankfully it only seemed to happen with around 6 of my contacts, so I manually changed their 'phone' names to their full name too.
Thanks, I have emailed HTC Support.
Hi,
I've 2 minor issues with the contact application.
At first I always had my contacts sorted by Last Name, First Name, but on the Desire I can't find an option to set this kind of sorting for all contacts stored on the phone.
And second I've stored all Birthdays within the contacts (birthday-field), but they aren't showing up in the calendar-application.
Any Ideas?
Calendar, no idea sorry...
As for sorting contacts Last name, First name
only way I've found is "Edit Contact" in people, then tap the name at the top where you edit the numbers... You then choose display as "Last Name, First Name"...
I've not found a global setting to do this as yet though... I guess I should read the manual!
I've noticed that any birthday you enter on the phone will not get updated to the online accout. I've no idea why that is. I haven't yet got an answer from HTC. In fact, my email seems to be completely ignored so I have to email them again.
You may also find that any new contact you enter on the phone, that you enter with a birthday, will either get deleted on the phone on the next sync, or never show up online.
I saw the setting for the display mode in the contact details, too.
But I don't think people want to configure all their contacts manually. Shouldn't be a problem for a smartphone to do it global.