There is a whole lot of info missing from this explanation to even remotely
guess as to possible cause but some questions that beg asking a

#1 - Are these contacts in PST files or Exch folders? If Exch, Personal or
Public?
#2 - Can you replicate this occurrence on any newly created contact?
#3 - Does this "problem" only show itself on "pre-existing" contacts?
#4 - Were all these contacts manually created (in any version of Outlook) or
imported? If imported, from what data source - i.e PST2PST or CSV to PST
etc?
(simply opening a PST file from a prior Outlook version is not
considered importing - am referring to any explicit "import" process)
#5 - What Outlook version was used to create the contacts with the problem
(see "All Contact Fields" - Outlook Version)
#6 - There is absolutely no possibility that "any" kind of manual change
was made to the FileAs field by anyone at any time - is that correct?

Just by looking at the example of the invalid entry where there is a comma
following each word indicates that this is not being parsed using info
entered into Outlook since Outlook does not add a second comma regardless of
default format used. Outlook '2007 (or any other version for that matter)
doesn't have separate formatting rules "by contact" - goes by whatever the
default is set to when the contact is created.

Karl
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Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group
ContactGenie - Importer 1.3 / DataPorter 2.0 / Exporter
"Power contact importers/exporters for MS Outlook '2000/2007"
http://www.contactgenie.com


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In Outlook 2007, my default "File As" format for contacts is:

"Last Name, First Name (Company Name)"

However, for several of my contacts instead of appearing as:

Smith, John (ABC Products)

the "File As" field appears as:

Smith, John, ABC Products

This is driving me nuts! All the normal fields (First Name, Last Name,
Company Name, etc.) are already populated correctly. Anyone have any
suggestions? There is some sort of formatting applied to each contact
individually in this case. But how?