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Re: Name Order for contacts sync for 6230i

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Name Order for contacts sync for 6230i

6230i
Windows XP Pro Ver 5.1 SP2
MS Outlook 3003

Synching via Bluetooth.

Want contacts listed in phone as "Last Name, First Name" which is the "File As" field in Outlook. Instead am getting "First Name Last Name" which is same a "Full Name" filed in Outlook when syncing with Contacts entered in the Outlook.

Entering contact in phone as "Last Name, First Name" synchs up in Outlook with Phone Last Name mapped to Outlook First Name.

What am I missing here?

Thx
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manta
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Re: Name Order for contacts sync for 6230i

Unfortunaltely your phone has only one name field (no separate last name and first name field) and PC Sync combines the names from Outlook in First Last order and that cannot be unfortunately changed.
If you insert a name to phone name field, there is no way Pc Sync could know is the insertion done First Last or Last First and it syncs thus to Outlook First name field everything.
This is how it has been with old Nokia phones which do not have separate Last name First name fields (since Nokia 6210) and PC Sync from the beginning and changing it in one release to Last name First name order would create duplicates to each phone that has been previously synced with earlier PC Suite release.

With very new Nokia phones and all Nokia smart phones there is a separate first name and last name field and those phones are of course synced acoordingly with Outlook and the problem does not exist there.
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