Vista - Sorting Windows Contacts by a specific field?

Hi

My uncle recently got his first PC!

He wants to input the details of his old hand written address book into
Windows Contacts.

But he wants them displayed in the same way as his written address book
which is ordered according to a "category" i.e plumbers, taxi's,
electricians etc.

I thought we could get around this by using the Job Title field for the
category, using a list view and displaying the job title column and sorting
them by that column.

The problem is all the rows within the Job Title column are blank - even
though the records contain data in that field!

Is there another way around this within Windows Contacts?

Is it possible within Outlook contacts?

Or will my uncle be proved right that his brand new 21st century Vista PC
cant even do the very first task he has attempted to do with it - which his
trusty old hand written book has done for decades!

Thanks for any info

Ian

Try playing around with the various fields and see if you can find one that
works to display the contents of that field. Once you find that, then
ignore what the actual field name is and use that field for the Job Title
category.

Its a workaround, but obviously something such as that is necessary at this
point.

steve

"Ian R" <sorry@nospamthanks.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> My uncle recently got his first PC!
>
> He wants to input the details of his old hand written address book into
> Windows Contacts.
>
> But he wants them displayed in the same way as his written address book
> which is ordered according to a "category" i.e plumbers, taxi's,
> electricians etc.
>
> I thought we could get around this by using the Job Title field for the
> category, using a list view and displaying the job title column and
> sorting them by that column.
>
> The problem is all the rows within the Job Title column are blank - even
> though the records contain data in that field!
>
> Is there another way around this within Windows Contacts?
>
> Is it possible within Outlook contacts?
>
> Or will my uncle be proved right that his brand new 21st century Vista PC
> cant even do the very first task he has attempted to do with it - which
> his trusty old hand written book has done for decades!
>
> Thanks for any info
>
> Ian
>
>
>