I exported my contacts from gmail and imported them into Outlook (I'm attempting to sync the contacts from my Android phone onto my Windows Mobile phone), however when I bring them into Outlook, anyone who's name was split up (for example "John Smith") it refiled as "Smith, John" so when I then sync that to my phone, it's displayed everyone with their last name first. This makes it impossible to find anyone and I want them to all show with their first name first, ie. "John Smith" but the only way I've found to do that is to click on each contact individually and change it.
Is there a better/faster way to make all of them just show up with their first name first? If not, let me know if you're interested in buying a Touch HD, because it's pretty much useless if it's gonna rename all my contacts every time I sync.
Try Shubaroo Contact Changer, it doesn't change anything except the "File As" value so they all appear First, Last.
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Whenever I save new contacts from my phone, it saves them in the format "Lastname, Firstname". I would MUCH MUCH rather them save as "Firstname Lastname".
I know that this can easily be changed in Outlook for contacts that you store directly from you computer and then sync...but whenever I add someone from my phone, they always end up filed in the reverse order. Plus I use a Mac with Address Book not Outlook.
Is there a registry edit that will fix this? Or even easier...some setting that I have missed that will fix this?
If you scroll down enough, there is a field that allows you to select what display format you'd like.
Isn't that just by name or organization?
I only get an option to view by Name or Company.
I know for WM5 PocketPc Edition somebody had written a small utility called "ContactsFiler".
Does anything like that exist for Smartphone?
Hi,
as it is, contacts stores Last name, First Name.
I would like to change that to First Name, Last Name.
Maybe some registry hack?
Thanks
WM6, TMOBILE
i think you can do that on Outlook... Display as FirstName LastName
its a per contact thing. edit a contact and change "file as" to how you want it. I remember easily changing all my contacts in outlook on the pc and then syncing it to the phone.
Is there a way of tweaking the People Tab in Touchflo to display the "file as" field of the contact in the text, rather then the contacts first name. It was one of my fave features of SPB Mobile Shell.
I think it depends on how you have your contacts entered in your address book. Mine are all synced from Outlook and the File As is set to "First Last", and that's how my People tab shows it. If you open up the MS contacts app on the phone, edit a contact, there should be a File As drop-down. I think by default it's Last, First or possibly just First if you don't have a last name entered.
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I think it depends on how you have your contacts entered in your address book. Mine are all synced from Outlook and the File As is set to "First Last", and that's how my People tab shows it. If you open up the MS contacts app on the phone, edit a contact, there should be a File As drop-down. I think by default it's Last, First or possibly just First if you don't have a last name entered.
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Yeah, I have fileas set to First Last too, but for certain contacts in Outlook, such as buisness addresses, I don't put anything in the name fields, just the buisness field. Outlook then automatically sets the Fileas field to the buisness name instead.
At the minute, Touchflo just looks for the entry in the First Name field and shows that - I want it to show whatever is in the Fileas field instead. I'm currently using version 2.5, or Leo I think its codenamed.
Ah, yeah. I ran into that issue too. I ended up just having to copy the business name into the First name field in Outlook. Not the best solution, but it worked for me.
Aye, SPB used to be able to do it, so its not a fault with Windows mobile itself - there must be someway to tweak the registry or reverse the polarity or something.
Hi all,
I have just observed that my contacts are wrong, and I need to change between first <-> last name in them (they originate from a sony-erricsson phone).
Is there a tool to do the exchange automatically? Either in the phone, or inside outlook?
There is always the option to do it manually, but they are around 130 contacts...
hi petasis
i had the same problem and found the solution in MSoutlook (2k3)
go to Tools > Options > Preferences tab > Contacts Options button
there u can change how your contacts are displayed and saved
You can export your contacts from Outlook as a Windows CSV file, then modify that file using Excel and import it back to Oulook after deleting all old contacts, so they don't duplicate. The disadvantage
petasis said:
Hi all,
I have just observed that my contacts are wrong, and I need to change between first <-> last name in them (they originate from a sony-erricsson phone).
Is there a tool to do the exchange automatically? Either in the phone, or inside outlook?
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Yes there is.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=549477
Thank you for all your replies, but I don't want to simply change the "file as" (how the contacts are displayed). I want to change the actual contacts, as the first name field contains the surname (and the opposite).
I can't sync to Google and I have 1,200+ database entries
(about 200 are actual contacts, the rest of either phantom or
empty entries, Google sync created). I'd like to clean up the
database but don't know what I need to do.
Does anyone have a utility to remove duplicate contacts,
either from the exported vcf file or the live database?
I can run a utility on any of Win32, Unix or the phone itself.
Thanks
Other than manually, I'm not entirely sure.
After reading your post, I would have to guess that you're in the data industry? I had never heard someone say de-dupe before I was introduced to the business myself.
log in to gmail, on your computer, under contacts, you can fix you duplicates there, and make all the changes you want, when it syncs again it will be fixed.
hope that works for you, did for me.
I would say go to gmail and export the contacts to CVS. then make the changes there... delete all contact in gmail... and import the shorter 200 list.
To me I think that would be the easiest way.
SoBBie
I'd just organize them according to the date created