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oh, ok, i dont use colour thats why i thought you could do it
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yeh, and if your looking for a sertain contact in you list and cant find them, press the first letter of there custom nickname and it will go through them if you continue to press the key


Actually, you can't do this, if you type in the contact list, it will search by the first letter of the email address, not the custom name.  I assume this is because the contact list is by email under the covers.

Try this by naming a contact a name starting with a completely different letter than their email address.
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Actually, you can't do this, if you type in the contact list, it will search by the first letter of the email address, not the custom name.  I assume this is because the contact list is by email under the covers.

Try this by naming a contact a name starting with a completely different letter than their email address.
It does select on the custom name, not on the email address (in messenger 6... didn't tested in 7 yet, but that should be the same)
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It does select on the custom name, not on the email address (in messenger 6... didn't tested in 7 yet, but that should be the same)

Yep.  I'm using 7.  It doesn't work.
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I find that most people who use MSN have incredibly long nick names and in some cases don't even have their name included, they just have a random statement.

That is why I use the custom name feature.  However, then it is is a pain to try and find the contacts because they are out of alphabetical order.-JGunn

What you can do (ok, its not really a good solution, but perhaps a little bit more well-organised, like you want), you can set custom names for everyone using their emailadresses "(!M)" (type it without the "), and then they are sorted alphabetically (as you see the emailadresses, and the list is sorted by emailadress). Hope that you understand, and that perhaps it is useful to you :)
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What you can do (ok, its not really a good solution, but perhaps a little bit more well-organised, like you want), you can set custom names for everyone using their emailadresses "(!M)" (type it without the "), and then they are sorted alphabetically (as you see the emailadresses, and the list is sorted by emailadress). Hope that you understand, and that perhaps it is useful to you




Cant you just simply disable custom names and sort contacts by email address using msn messenger.

Contacts -> manage contacts -> View contacts by -> email address.
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Cant you just simply disable custom names and sort contacts by email address using msn messenger.

Contacts -> manage contacts -> View contacts by -> email address.
yes, but the point is sorting with "custom names".
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yes, but the point is sorting with "custom names".

Sorry, I was just replying to Lilo's suggestion.
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