Alternative delivery address - turn off mandatory fields?

Hi,

When selecting an alternative shipping/delivery address, there are mandatory fields for FirstName LastName. Is it possible to turn off the mandatory requirement? I cannot find an option to do this in the admin.

TIA

there are mandatory fields for FirstName LastName. Is it possible to turn off the mandatory requirement?

No, at this time the required fields are universally set and affect both the billing and shipping addresses. If you don't mind me asking ... why would you want the name to be optional?

Because the shipping is to a third party with different details. Since there is a "company" field and the shipping is often done simply to the business name, the personal name fields are redundant. To get round this at the moment, we split the company name between the firtname and last name fields and leave the company filed blank because it is not mandatory :-))

Thanks for the answer.

BTW...Is it possible to sort and display alternative shipping addresses from the address book in a different format? They come up in a single column, with multiple line entries at the moment. Not a problem with the default max of 5 but we have gone way beyond that.