On 1/21/03 5:12 AM, "Norman W. Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is there some documentation somewhere that'll explain to me how EntourageX > sorts entries? > > I am a tad confused, as I have a number of entries with Company info only > (i.e. no personal info in the contact) that do not seem to sort > alphabetically either by name or by company. > > Does it have something to do with the amount of info in the contact? For > example, some of these have only the company name and a telephone number, > while others may have full address information. > > Open nets... Sort where exactly? If you're in the Address Book, and you have the NAME column clicked, then it sorts by Last Name, even though it displays as FirstName LastName. (If there's only a First Name, it appears alphabetically mixed with the other contacts' Last Names.) Since you're not sorting on Company, contacts with no name but only company are blank as far as name sorting is concerned, so they'll be all at the top. Unfortunately, since there is no sub-sorting procedure, all the "blank name" contacts - whether they have company or not, or just email address, etc. - will not be sorted; i.e. they will display in the order in which they were created, which won't help you much. There is certainly something to be said for Apple Address Book's method of defaulting to company when there's no last or first name, and to email address when there's nothing else. You only get <No Name> there when a contact has none of those. Company, at least, has certainly been suggested before for Entourage. I think sub-sorting might be good, where you could choose which columns to sub-sort on. So all the companies and email address-only would still be at the top, but in their own alphabetical order. Perhaps company mixed in with names, but email addresses at he top would be best: you can always sort by the Email address column if you want to look via email address after all. Make your request via the Help menu too. In the meantime, it's actually pretty easy to click on the Company column and do a quick check there. If you don't have a company column, go to View/Columns, or control-click (right-click) on any column header in the Address Book to get a pop-down list, and select Company. -- Paul Berkowitz MVP Entourage Entourage FAQ Page: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - 2001 or X. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
