Sorting contacts by Lastname, FirstName

[Michele]

I use Outlook 2007 on Vista.
I have my address book sorted on the field "File As" and in Outlook contacts
options i set the "File as" field equal to Lastname, Firstname.
I have two contacts: Contact one has lastname equal to "Smith Karl" (so he
has a lastname composed by two words) and Firstname equal to "Carl" , Contact
two
has lastname equal to "Smith" and FirstName equal to "John". So Contact one
has a "File as" field equal to "Smith Karl, Carl" and Contact two has a "File
as"
field equal to "Smith, John".
In this exact case the contacts are not sorted correctly, this is the way
Outlook sorts my two contacts (ascending sort):

1)Smith Karl, Carl
2)Smith, John

Instead, obviously, the correct ascending order based on Lastname, Firstname
should have been:

1)Smith, John
2)Smith Karl, Carl

Why Doesn't Outlook display my two contacts in the correct order?
Thanks a lot for the help
Ciao

 

[DL]

Because of the method the sort is using
Try "Smith-Karl"

 

[DL]

To add, the outlook data file is a database, and it would appear that an
incorrect index has been used in its implementation, of the names index

 

[Michele]

Yes. It would have been enough to codify the concatenation of
LastNameAndFirstName property in this way: LastName & " " & "," & Firstname &
" " & MiddleName that is adding a space before the comma that separates the
Lastname from the Firstname/middlename.
It seems to me very strange that guys at Microsoft didn't realize that the
sorting order in Lastname, FirstName case is not giving the obvious expected
result.
Hope this will be solved in the next versions or in the next service packs.
Thanks a lot for reading me.