why are my contact's children sorted into alphabetical order?

[Jim B]

I have just typed in my friend's children's names into the Outlook CHildren
field. I did it in age order, with commas between to indicate that a space
is just a link to a second name. When I tabbed to the next field they were
in alphabetical order!
What damn good is that?
Why does MS think that is a sensible way to sort, and why has it changed
what I typed in.
How can I get it to cease and desist?
Its bad enough that the Children field is so well hidden.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Most of us have learned to live with how Outlook works for minor issues.
This is not an issue for most Outlook users and is behavior as designed.

 

[A_Taylor]

It does that b/c it's a Keyword type field, and you can't change that.

My suggestion would be to delete it and create a new "Children" field,
making sure it's of type "Text", and use that.