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  1. mikejones2000's Avatar
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    I have a few contacts where I changed their last names or I misspelled their name when I entered them. They are still displaying as their previous name in the contact list. When I go to edit it has the corrected name. Short of deleting and re entering is there a way to fix it?
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    Try go to settings, email accounts, long press Microsoft account then sync. See if that updates it

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    Just tried but it didn't work. These contacts were entered on a previous phone I had then imported over, not from my email. Not sure if that has anything to do with it.
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    If I am not mistaken, which happens often LOL, I believe contacts imported over from another phone are stored as "read only" and can't effectively be edited, as you have discovered. I had a similar issue when I switched to WP and those that had issues I had to delete and re-enter. Well, actually it told me read-only contacts couldn't be delete, I had to just tell it to not show them. The newly entered contacts could be edited as needed.

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