In addition to Contacts preferences, you can set a Mail preference to allow someone else to manage your Contacts.

1. From any of the Contacts views, click More > Preferences.

2. Set any of the preferences described below, and then click OK.

Contacts owner

If you receive a copy of someone else's Contacts file, for example your predecessor in a job, you can change the contacts owner to be yourself. Enter your name in the Contacts owner field, or click the button next to the field to select your name from a list.

When you add names to a group entry, the names are not sorted by default. Select this field to sort member names alphabetically when you save a group document. Note that members in group documents are always sorted by first name, even if you set the preference to sort views and display contact details by last name.

Setting this preference does not sort existing groups. To sort the members of existing group entries, edit the group entry and click the Sort Member List button.

Optimize index for advanced searching of Contacts

Select this field so that your contacts are fully indexed and searching is handled efficiently.

By default, names are divided into first name and last name. If you add a contact whose name has three parts, such as George De Marco, a Name Helper displays so that you can specify "De Marco" as the last name. Select this option to suppress the Name Helper and always accept the default name division.

Tip: You can still get to the Name Helper dialog box when you create a new contact by clicking the Contact Name link on the New Contact form.

Do not automatically add names to the Recent Contacts view

Delete documents in my Trash after <n> hours

When you delete a contact entry or group, the record is moved to the Trash view where it is held for a specified amount of time. Enter the number of hours you want to keep a contact record before deleting it.

Select how you want names to be displayed in your Contacts (First Name, Last Name or Last Name, First Name). Setting this preference changes the way new contact entries display. To apply the change to existing as well as new contact documents, select Apply format to all entries.

Note: You can override this setting for an individual contact in the View display name format field on the Names & Certificates tab.

Create shortcuts to open the other contacts of these people

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