Sort contacts by name in Windows Mail

Original title: managing windows mail contacts

Trying to manage the contacts file; import express outlook .csv files and other sources; I put "Sort by name" and it will ignore the command list "sort by name"; can find no "smart search" feature that has always been included in outlook express.

any suggestions?

Dave casbon

Hi Dave Casbon,.

You can check out the following link and try the steps by James-Engineer Support to sort by last name.

http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/vistaperformance/thread/95d75d61-0912-4f29-98f6-3484eb7454ca

Also check the following links for more information:

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/managing-your-contacts

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/working-with-Windows-Mail

Note: because the problem is with Windows mail, moving is not for Windows XP instead of the wire is moved to network, e-mail and put online.

Hope this information is useful.

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