Answer has been posted here countless times and depends on your Outlook
version which you failed to post.

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"jay" wrote in message
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I had to delete my aaddress book and contacts and import a new set of
contacts and address book. The contacts came in last name first as I
wanted,
but I cannot find out how to change the order of the address book. It
should
be rather simple, I would think.