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You can only edit the order within a particular type of data (i.e. phone number, email, etc.); and I can only do it when I add/remove a field. For example, you can change the sequence of phone numbers within the block of phone numbers, but you can't place email addresses before phone numbers. You can edit the default template that is used when you add a new person to your address book (access Preferences); and, within the previously mentioned limitations, you can specify any desired order within a data type. For example, I may prefer to have a mobile number listed before the work number.

However, for existing entries in your address book, changing the template doesn't help much. If you only have a few problem addresses, while tedious, you can change the order by removing and then adding a field back again in the correct order, or by changing the field names to the preferred order. In both cases, you should save your data to a text file and then paste it back into the correct fields after you are done moving the fields around.

If you have many records to fix, you could try exporting and re-importing the data; but I will confess to never trying that; and can't guarantee that the approach would be effective.