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Old 01-19-16, 01:26 PM
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The phone book in my new Lexus is infuriating. The Apple phone book has separate fields for first and last names and for company name. After I import the phone book and sort it by surname, this is how entries look:
First name: John
Last name: Doe
Result: Doe John
Company name: Doe Variety Store
Result: not imported
Company name: Doe Variety Store, Inc
Result: , Inc Doe Variety Store
I then tried duplicating the store’s name in the last-name field:
Last name: Doe Variety Store
Company name: Doe Variety Store
Result: Store, Doe Variety
It may be that the last approach would work if I sorted on first name but then to find John Doe I would need to sort through 57 Johns. There is a reason that printed phone books everywhere are alphabetized by surname, not first name.

Is this design bug exclusive to the model I bought, a 2016 GS? Can anyone suggest a way to induce Lexus to issue a patch for the bug?
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A workaround is:

First name: Variety Store
Last name: Doe
Result: Doe Variety Store
Old 01-19-16, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by maurerc
A workaround is:

First name: Variety Store
Last name: Doe
Result: Doe Variety Store
Workable, That Sounds

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