Sort contacts by first name

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Sam Rich

I've always wanted to be able to sort my contacts by their first name, but
I've never found out how to do this. Can anyone tell me how?
 
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Diane Ross

I've always wanted to be able to sort my contacts by their first name, but
I've never found out how to do this. Can anyone tell me how?
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You can work around the limitation in the Address Book by leaving First Name
fields of all contacts blank, and putting the first name into the Nickname
field instead. Add a Nickname column to the Address Book in View menu -->
Columns or by control-clicking on any column header and adding "Nickname",
then drag it to be just to the right of the Name column. You will now see
the Last Name followed by the First Name. Sort as usual by Name column to
make it alphabetical by Last Name.


Here is a script to convert all your contact First Names to Nicknames :

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
   set theContacts to every contact
   repeat with theContact in my theContacts
      tell theContact
         set firstName to first name as Unicode text
         if firstName ‚ "" then
            set nickname to firstName
            set first name to ""
         end if
      end tell
   end repeat
end tell

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
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