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Thanks - the first article did the trick.
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Great - glad to have helped. <br />
Thanx for the grade. :D
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I am running Office XP, and want to create a Word letter template which will prompt users to select the addressee from a drop-down list from Outlook Contacts. I hope to do this using Word's toolbar command InsertAddress.<br />
My problem is that the contacts are listed alphabetically by first name, when I want them listed alphabetically by last name.<br />
In Outlook Options, have changed Contact Options appropriately, but this hasn't helped. &nbsp;I note that this option is stated to apply only to new contacts. &nbsp;Is there a way of changing existing contacts so they will display correctly in Word's InsertAddress command? &nbsp;(NB I have posted a similar question in the Word forum).
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I am running Office XP, and want to create a Word letter template which will prompt users to select the addressee from a drop-down list from Outlook Contacts. I hope to do this using Word's toolbar command InsertAddress.
My problem is that the contacts are listed alphabetically by first name, when I want them listed alphabetically by last name.
In Outlook Options, have changed Contact Options appropriately, but this hasn't helped.  I note that this option is stated to apply only to new contacts.  Is there a way of changing existing contacts so they will display correctly in Word's InsertAddress command?  (NB I have posted a similar question in the Word forum).

Thanks - the first article did the trick.

Great - glad to have helped. 
Thanx for the grade. :D

Integration with Word XP

I am running Office XP, and want to create a Word letter template which will prompt users to select the addressee from a drop-down list from Outlook Contacts. I hope to do this using Word&#39;s toolbar command InsertAddress.
My problem is that the contacts are listed alphabetically by first name, when I want them listed alphabetically by last name.
In Outlook Options, have changed Contact Options appropriately, but this hasn&#39;t helped.  I note that this option is stated to apply only to new contacts.  Is there a way of changing existing contacts so they will display correctly in Word&#39;s InsertAddress command?  (NB I have posted a similar question in the Word forum).

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an email application, it also includes a calendar, task manager, contact manager, note-taker, journal, and web browser.