Address Book sort order

[Aaron]

Most users here are using Outlook XP. If you open the Address Book, and then pull down the drop-down menu under "show names from the", you'll see the Global Address List on top, then several hundred Schools and Departments, and at the very bottom you'll see "Outlook Address Book" with Contacts. What users are wanting here is to still have Global Address List as their default address list to be shown, but they don't want to scroll through several hundred GAL listings to get to their contacts. So the question is, how can one "sort" that list in the drop-down menu so that Contacts is right above the GAL? In Outlook 2000, there's a trick where you remove the Exchange service, restart Outlook, and Outlook will put the GAL under the Contacts. In Outlook 2003, it appears that Contacts is at the top of the list when a new profile is created. Any idea if this is possible with Outlook XP?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Can't you just go to Tools > Options in the Address Book and set that?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Most users here are using Outlook XP. If you open the Address Book, and

then pull down the drop-down menu under "show names from the", you'll see
the Global Address List on top, then several hundred Schools and
Departments, and at the very bottom you'll see "Outlook Address Book" with
Contacts. What users are wanting here is to still have Global Address List
as their default address list to be shown, but they don't want to scroll
through several hundred GAL listings to get to their contacts. So the
question is, how can one "sort" that list in the drop-down menu so that
Contacts is right above the GAL? In Outlook 2000, there's a trick where you
remove the Exchange service, restart Outlook, and Outlook will put the GAL
under the Contacts. In Outlook 2003, it appears that Contacts is at the top
of the list when a new profile is created. Any idea if this is possible
with Outlook XP?