I export my Outlook Contacts to my cell phone, when a call comes in the
caller id displays the company and not the caller's name. This is because of
the way I have my Contacts filed. Currently I have all my Outlook contacts
filed as Company (Full Name).

Since I have hundreds of Contacts I'd like to change the way all of my
contacts are filed in one action as opposed to changing them individually.

Any ideas?

tks,
steve

You can do this with VBA code. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/convertfields.htm, which is an example of how to loop through all the contacts in a folder and change some properties. The property you'd want to change is FileAs. If, for example, you wanted to change it to First Last (Company), you'd need a code statement like this:

objItem.FileAs = objItem.FirstName & " " & Item.LastName & vbCrLf & Item.CompanyName

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"sjs" wrote in message ...
I export my Outlook Contacts to my cell phone, when a call comes in the
caller id displays the company and not the caller's name. This is because of
the way I have my Contacts filed. Currently I have all my Outlook contacts
filed as Company (Full Name).

Since I have hundreds of Contacts I'd like to change the way all of my
contacts are filed in one action as opposed to changing them individually.

Any ideas?

tks,
steve

Wow, since I've never played w/VBA code it seems like a complex way to make a
change. I would think there would be a configuration setting w/in Outlook
that would allow for a global change...

Thanks for your help!
steve

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

You can do this with VBA code. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/convertfields.htm, which is an example of how to loop through all the contacts in a folder and change some properties. The property you'd want to change is FileAs. If, for example, you wanted to change it to First Last (Company), you'd need a code statement like this:

objItem.FileAs = objItem.FirstName & " " & Item.LastName & vbCrLf & Item.CompanyName

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"sjs" wrote in message ...
I export my Outlook Contacts to my cell phone, when a call comes in the
caller id displays the company and not the caller's name. This is because of
the way I have my Contacts filed. Currently I have all my Outlook contacts
filed as Company (Full Name).

Since I have hundreds of Contacts I'd like to change the way all of my
contacts are filed in one action as opposed to changing them individually.

Any ideas?

tks,
steve

Nope. You're changing the actual *data* stored for each item, not the configuration. It takes more than a setting to do that.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"sjs" wrote in message ...
Wow, since I've never played w/VBA code it seems like a complex way to make a
change. I would think there would be a configuration setting w/in Outlook
that would allow for a global change...

Thanks for your help!
steve

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

You can do this with VBA code. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/convertfields.htm, which is an example of how to loop through all the contacts in a folder and change some properties. The property you'd want to change is FileAs. If, for example, you wanted to change it to First Last (Company), you'd need a code statement like this:

objItem.FileAs = objItem.FirstName & " " & Item.LastName & vbCrLf & Item.CompanyName

"sjs" wrote in message ...
I export my Outlook Contacts to my cell phone, when a call comes in the
caller id displays the company and not the caller's name. This is because of
the way I have my Contacts filed. Currently I have all my Outlook contacts
filed as Company (Full Name).

Since I have hundreds of Contacts I'd like to change the way all of my
contacts are filed in one action as opposed to changing them individually.

Any ideas?

tks,
steve