How do I sort the Address Book by firstname?

  • Thread starter Saurabh Chaudhary
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Saurabh Chaudhary

I recently imported all my personal and business contacts into the Entourage
Address Book, but I fail to understand how to use Firstname to sort the
address book. As per my understanding, the default setting is to sort by the
Lastname.

Anyone got any suggestions?

Cheers,
Saurabh
 
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Paul Berkowitz

I recently imported all my personal and business contacts into the Entourage
Address Book, but I fail to understand how to use Firstname to sort the
address book. As per my understanding, the default setting is to sort by the
Lastname.

Anyone got any suggestions?
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Copy the First Name into the Nickname field (or any Custom Field) and sort
by that field. Add the column (if not there) via View/Columns. then drag the
Column to the far left or second left if you want to.

You can do the copying easily by AppleScript. Paste this into Script Editor
(in /Applications/AppleScript/) and run it:


tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
repeat with theContact in (every contact)
tell theContact
set nickname to (get first name)
end tell
end repeat
beep
display dialog "All done!"
end tell


You can change the significant line to

set custom field one to (get first name)

(or 'custom field five', etc.)


--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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