Sort Microsoft Outlook Contacts By Date Created

Have you ever added someone to Microsoft Exchange sync’d mobile device, then forgotten their name?  BUT you know a general time period of when you added the contact?

Well, I have, and never knew how to find the “created on” attribute… but i guess I never looked very hard.  But tonight I was really feeling frisky and decided to look at all the attributes on an item in Outlook.  There’s a whole bunch of attributes that you don’t normally see, which always kinda gets me interested…   Here’s how to sort your contacts by their creation date, showing the day that you added them to your phonebook or contact list:

In Outlook 2010:

1. Click on the contacts view in Outlook
2. Click the View Tab in the Ribbon
3. Click Change View>List
4. Click View Settings
5. Click Columns
6. From the pulldown menu choose “All Post Views”
7. Hilite “Created” in the list
8. Click “Add ->”
9. If you want, put the Created as the first in the list
10. Click OK>OK
11. Sort at leisure!

In Outlook 2003:

1. Open your contacts view in Outlook
2. Go to View>Arrange By>Current View>Phone List
3. Go to View>Arrange By>Current View>Customize Current View
4. Click Fields
5. From the pulldown menu, select All Post Fields
6. Hilite “Created” in the list
7. Click “Add ->”
8. Click OK>OK
9. Check out your new “Created” column in the view. BOOM
10. Click the Column header to sort by date.

In outlook 2007, it’s probably really similar to OL2010

Weird Calendar Problems with Outlook

If people are having weird problems (recurring reminders that dont go away, etc) with Outlook 2003 calendars try the following:

 

Close outlook and kill oulook.exe process in task manager if it is still running

 

From a DOS prompt, type the following commands, hit enter after each line and close outlook and kill outlook.exe after lines 2-4.

 

1. Cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11
2. Outlook.exe /cleanfreebusy
3. Outlook.exe /cleanreminders
4. Outlook.exe /cleansniff

 

 

Ron