"Full Name" properties reversed

[Ricky Bobbie]

Outlook 2007: When entering new 1st & last names into a new Contact, the Full
Name is reversed to LAst 1st? Have dbl checked all adress book/contacts/mail
settings and cannot solve the issue. Sugestions???

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

State the setting you chose for the Full Name field and how you chose it.

 

[Ricky Bobbie]

A please would be nice?

I was finally able to clear this issue by the following:

Under Tools>Account Settings>Address Book>Change> the Default "Full Name"
order was set to by Last Name, First Name.

However, in Tools>Options>Contact Options>Default "Full Name" oreder was set
to Last First.

By changing the Default "Full Name" order to First (Middle) Last the problem
was corrected.

Why don't you guys have one single location that provides all the
options/combinations for displaying names, auto fill, etc? Instead there are
at least four possible areas that can be done and it appears the "Default"
options must synch with the user selections elsewhere. It took quite a few
hours for me to fix this simple problem and searched documentation/Help
extinsively.

State the setting you chose for the Full Name field and how you chose it.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Outlook 2007: When entering new 1st & last names into a new Contact, the
Full
Name is reversed to LAst 1st? Have dbl checked all adress
book/contacts/mail
settings and cannot solve the issue. Sugestions???

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Why don't you guys have one single location that provides all the
options/combinations for displaying names, auto fill, etc?

Who's "you guys"? You're not conversing with Microsoft in these newsgroups.
We're all just users of Outlook, like yourself.

 

[Ricky Bobbie]

Apologies! Thought you were official moderator from MS. Guess it was too much
to hope that someone from MS actually gave chat about what user real
issues/needs were. Thanks for your help.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

It is a ridiculously complicated and fragmented procedure indeed that is not
well documented in Help files. However, it is one that has been clearly
documented here many times so a simple search of the threads in this groups
could have gotten you on your way in no time. Always a good idea to search
the groups. Please.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

A please would be nice?

I was finally able to clear this issue by the following:

Under Tools>Account Settings>Address Book>Change> the Default "Full Name"
order was set to by Last Name, First Name.

However, in Tools>Options>Contact Options>Default "Full Name" oreder was
set
to Last First.

By changing the Default "Full Name" order to First (Middle) Last the
problem
was corrected.

Why don't you guys have one single location that provides all the
options/combinations for displaying names, auto fill, etc? Instead there
are
at least four possible areas that can be done and it appears the "Default"
options must synch with the user selections elsewhere. It took quite a few
hours for me to fix this simple problem and searched documentation/Help
extinsively.

State the setting you chose for the Full Name field and how you chose it.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Outlook 2007: When entering new 1st & last names into a new Contact,
the
Full
Name is reversed to LAst 1st? Have dbl checked all adress
book/contacts/mail
settings and cannot solve the issue. Sugestions???