Contact list by last name

[navigator]

I recently switched to a Moto Droid. I imported my contact list from Yahoo. Yahoo was last name then first name. In the Droid they are all first/last. Any way to switch them back?

Thanks

[christim]

Gesture Search by Google, free in the market. Start typing a name, any part of a name, and it comes up. Would that help?

Welcome to the forums!

[artc33]

I recently switched to a Moto Droid. I imported my contact list from Yahoo. Yahoo was last name then first name. In the Droid they are all first/last. Any way to switch them back?

Thanks

hey there welcome!

this happened to someone before, except for facebook contacts that are synced, you would have to do this manually.

-go to contacts list.
-tap on a contact.
-menu/edit contact.
-right under the little picture you'll see the contacts name on first line, erase and write last name.
-2nd line (family name) write the contact's first name/save.

go back to contacts list and you'll see your contacts as last-first names, hope this helps. it'll be a little annoying specially if you have a lot of contacts, but this is pretty much one way to do it.

[navigator]

Bummer. I do have quite a few. I am hoping the 2.1 release may have some options to make the change. Would appreciate hearing from anyone who already has the release.

[christim]

I recently switched to a Moto Droid. I imported my contact list from Yahoo. Yahoo was last name then first name. In the Droid they are all first/last. Any way to switch them back?

Thanks

hey there welcome!

this happened to someone before, except for facebook contacts that are synced, you would have to do this manually.

-go to contacts list.
-tap on a contact.
-menu/edit contact.
-right under the little picture you'll see the contacts name on first line, erase and write last name.
-2nd line (family name) write the contact's first name/save.

go back to contacts list and you'll see your contacts as last-first names, hope this helps. it'll be a little annoying specially if you have a lot of contacts, but this is pretty much one way to do it.

ack! I have over 200 contacts, easily

I synch with gmail. I can export my contacts from gmail to a spreadsheet. I can swap the columns for first and last name. I can then import the contacts back in and then they will have the last name in the first name field on my phone....if I wanted them sorted that way. Looks like I also can import/export to my sd card using the options available within the Droid's contact manager too. Too bad there isn't a "sort order" though.

[navigator]

Chris, like the idea. Will try exporting to a spreadsheet and making the changes and re-syncing.

Will let you know if it works

Thanks

[Backnblack]

Chris, like the idea. Will try exporting to a spreadsheet and making the changes and re-syncing.

Will let you know if it works

Thanks

Be sure to change the column headers.....

[xliderider]

I ended up editing my contacts on Google.com on my computer. The edited contacts resynced to my Droid.

[hookbill]

You did that at gmail.com not google. Just clarifying.

[xliderider]

You did that at gmail.com not google. Just clarifying.

Correctomundo.