That seems to have sorted it - many thanks!

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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Ideas would require knowing your Outlook version and what "all your
attempts" entailed.
What works for those using Outlook 2002 and 2003 is the following:
Go to Tools E-mail accounts View or change existing directories or
address books Outlook Address Book Change. Set your sort order there
Restart Outlook.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Terry Bennett" wrote in message
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I am having trouble with the way in which the Address Book displays.

I prefer all names to appear as: Surname, Forename (ie; Smith, John).

Within my Contacts, all names show this way under both 'Full Name' and
'File as'. Despite this, however, when opening Address Book, some of the
names still show in the first column as 'John Smith' even though the
second column (Display As) shows them as 'Smith, John'.

None of my attempts at altering this seem to have worked!

Any ideas?