Contacts - Mass "File As" Change

[sjs]

I export my Outlook Contacts to my cell phone, when a call comes in the
caller id displays the company and not the caller's name. This is because of
the way I have my Contacts filed. Currently I have all my Outlook contacts
filed as Company (Full Name).

Since I have hundreds of Contacts I'd like to change the way all of my
contacts are filed in one action as opposed to changing them individually.

Any ideas?

tks,
steve

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You can do this with VBA code. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/convertfields.htm, which is an example of how to loop through all the contacts in a folder and change some properties. The property you'd want to change is FileAs. If, for example, you wanted to change it to First Last (Company), you'd need a code statement like this:

objItem.FileAs = objItem.FirstName & " " & Item.LastName & vbCrLf & Item.CompanyName

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[sjs]

Wow, since I've never played w/VBA code it seems like a complex way to make a
change. I would think there would be a configuration setting w/in Outlook
that would allow for a global change...

Thanks for your help!
steve

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Nope. You're changing the actual *data* stored for each item, not the configuration. It takes more than a setting to do that.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers