You left off the rest of this post so I have no idea to what you are
replying. I don't understand why you think you can't sort your recipients by
Last Name. You most certainly can. We post instructions on how to do so
every day.
Go to Tools E-mail accounts View or change existing directories or
address books Outlook Address Book Change. Set your sort order there

If you were asking how to sort the autocompletion catch, you can't. You
don't need to. Just use the Outlook Address Book instead.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"radcen" wrote in message
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Hi Russ,

Thank you for pointing out that the autocompletion cache uses a different
source of information than the Address Book - I hadn't realized that, and
now
my difficulty makes more sense.

It's not a question of 'need,' per se, but of convinience. I think of my
contacts by their last names, therefore, when I want to write to someone,
it
is their last name that I call to mind, and I find it most convinient to
use
the "To" box rather than opening the "To" window. It seems that what I
want
isn't a supported feature, however, so I'll get by without for now, unless
someone else has a suggestion...