Ah thanks. Didn't know about the list view - makes it somewhat easier though
now I have to
re-edit all my contacts and put the company name back in company field.
and yes, auto complete is faster - when the name is showing. but a lot of my
imported contacts didn't
import correctly so I'm ending up typing a lot of them in manually and
couldn't get it to sort by company
name in the regular tiled view.
Thanks again
Lori
"Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:u9WWRH2QIHA.3676@xxxxxx
Quote:
> Not quite sure what you're trying to do. Where do you want a contact to
> "show up"? If you want to sort your contacts by company, then that's quite
> possible. E.g. open Contacts (Ctrl-Shift-C), select View > List view and
> Show preview pane. You'll probably see three data columns. Right click on
> each column in turn and choose what you want to appear in that column.
> Then
> left click to sort by that column.
>
> But you'll soon learn that it's much quicker and simpler just to start
> typing a name (like a company name) in the To: field of a new email - the
> more you type, the shorter the list of possible candidates. Select the
> one(s) you want and away you go.
> --
> Noel
>
> "LAB Enterprises" <orders@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:2C163EA8-64E2-4605-9082-B391CAD30DA9@xxxxxx Quote:
>> Yes I'm on Vista (thought WLM was only on Vista?), so what are the
>> Vista's
>> contacts used for then if not for email? Seems a waste of space to me.
>>
>> Also, in WLM am I missing how to display a contact by company name
>> instead
>> of by persons name? I'm having to put the company name in "first name"
>> and
>> the persons name in Company name so the contact will show up by the
>> company instead of by name. There must be an easier way. In outlook and
>> OE
>> I think you could always set a "display as". I'm not seeing that here.
>>
>> Lori
>>
>> "Gary VanderMolen" <gary@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:#Y7pjJ0QIHA.4712@xxxxxx Quote:
>>> Evidently you are running on a Vista computer.
>>> WLM doesn't use Vista's Contacts (Windows Mail does).
>>> I would not attempt to remove Windows Contacts since it is
>>> part of the Vista OS. There is no automatic sync mechanism,
>>> but you can export/import from Windows Contacts to WLM
>>> Contacts, and vice versa.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]
>>>
>>>
>>> "LAB Enterprises" <orders@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:256E26B8-567D-49A3-B908-F2BA1005B3EE@xxxxxx
>>>>I just noticed an icon in my start menu for "windows contacts". When I
>>>>opened it, I was expecting to see all the mail contacts but it only has
>>>>6
>>>>in it (my live mail contacts has about 96 atm), so I'm confused. What is
>>>>this extra contacts thing and what is it used for? Can I remove it or
>>>>sync the 2??
>>>>
>>>> Lori
>>>
>>>