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Question Adding Professional Credential Abbreviations to Name

Hello, I have a very annoying issue with adding names in Outlook 2016. I am cleaning up my boss's contacts and a lot of them have professional credential abbreviations after their name (i.e.; Ph.D., M.D., MPH, Esq., etc.). When I try to add them after the name or in the Suffix field when you click on the "Full Name" box/field, the way Outlook attempts to "File As" gets totally screwed up and as a result, the contact names will not appear in proper alphabetical order. The only way I could find to add any of these designations is not under the name but to manually add the info after the name in the email "Display As". This really is a very tedious, inefficient way to do it. Is there an easier way so that if I enter a name such as "John A. Smith, Ph.D., M.D.", it will then show up in "File As" as "Smith, Ph.D., M.D., John A." or even as "John A. Smith, Ph.D., M.D." but so when Outlook sorts the name, it puts in under "S" for Smith. Also the buttons that show initials next to each name end up wrong in this situation. In the example above, the button will show the initials as something like JM (for John M.D.) or JA (for John A.). Why doesn't Outlook have more fields (like Apple's Contacts) that allow you to enter info like this separately so that it then integrates properly? Hoping someone can help me figure this out. Thank you for your assistance !
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