Might pick a default algorithm for determining last name and allow the user to override specific names. Contacts Folder Full Name: First (Middle) Last Address Book The Address Book is the dialog which you get when you press the Address Book icon on the Ribbon or Toolbar, press on the To, CC or BCC button while composing a message or use the keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+B. On the E-mail tab, select your Internet service provider (ISP) account, and then click Change. On the Tools menu, click Account Settings.
To display your full name, edit your name in Account Settings. Having said all that, I also want to be able to list my contacts by last name, and am planning to play with writing an app to do that for fun. Your email might show only part of your name. Make sure that the Use Auto-Complete List to suggest names when typing in the To, Cc, and Bcc lines box is checked. Scroll approximately halfway down until you see Send messages. To access the AutoComplete setting, follow these steps: On the File menu, select Options. Add that to the 15 year old kids who didn't really care how well things were filed, and you got a mess. Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013, Outlook 2016, and Outlook 2019. Of course, not everyone filing the cards realized this, so some McAfees were in the M drawer and some in the Mc drawer. Ick, I remember looking up check writing authorization cards at a supermarket and realizing we had separate drawers for last names starting with "M" and ones starting with "Mc" (so Miller came before McAfee).
Which makes some sense - much of the reasons for filing systems came about when records were physical, and instant "search" wasn't really possible. It seems that Google's concept is that a name is just a name, and you use searches (of course, that being Google's whole thing) to find the right ones. Oddly enough when this updates I can see the correct name Amy Last Name, however, when I click to edit I see the original names Amy & Irving and note that in Messages what continues to show us is Amy & Irving. Outlook and some others solve this by having you enter multiple fields for the name, with an overriding "File As" field for the exceptions. I updated it to be first name of just Amy and then listed the spouse as Irving. .all contacts with holding the Shift key and clicking the first contact and the last one (3) Click the To -> button to add all contacts as email. Notes: (1) This method will show all new created contacts’ names as first name last name in Address book. Step 3: Close the Account Settings dialog box, and restart your Microsoft Outlook. And in some cultures, the first name listed is the family (what I would call "last") name and is what you'd want to sort on. Step 3: In the coming Microsoft Outlook Address Book dialog box, check the First last (John Smith) in the Show Names by section, and click the Close button. at the end, or multi-word last names like Van der Water, etc) that it isn't as algorithmically applicable. Click to expand.Unfortunately, that rule is broken often enough (Jr., Sr.