Copying names and addresses for pasting into letters - Glitch

[Richrd]

Using Outlook 2003. Want to copy a name and address to the clipboard for pasting into a letter or label (I do this a lot). I also want, presumably like most people, to list my contacts alphabetically by last name. But Outlook copies the name from the "file as" field, which means that the name appears in my letter as "Smith, John." Now, most of us don't address letters that way; so why didn't MS programmers make the macro copy the name from the "full name" field, which would solve the problem
Does anyone know of a fix for this annoying glitch so that I don't have to fix the name in my document
Thanks, Richard

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

There is no such glitch. List the precise steps you are using so we can see
what you're doing wrong.
To learn about ways to control how an Address is inserted into Word from
Outlook, take a look here:

http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/insword.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q134901

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Using Outlook 2003. Want to copy a name and address to the clipboard for

pasting into a letter or label (I do this a lot). I also want, presumably
like most people, to list my contacts alphabetically by last name. But
Outlook copies the name from the "file as" field, which means that the name
appears in my letter as "Smith, John." Now, most of us don't address letters
that way; so why didn't MS programmers make the macro copy the name from the
"full name" field, which would solve the problem?

Does anyone know of a fix for this annoying glitch so that I don't have

to fix the name in my document?