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Phone number formatting
Phone number formatting
OL2003 Hi How I can remove the brackets insertion in the contacts phone formatting My phone list includes a lot of foreign phone numbers that hold different number of digits All the phone numbers of the contacts list are formatted with brackets positioned differently according to digit number Actions / Call contacts / New calls / Dialing options /setting for phone number formatting and dialing shows an unchecked and not accessible "Automatically add country code to local phone number" Is there someone who can give me the clue on how to remove the brackets insertion on phone number formatting? Thanks |
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No good way to do this. Masking of phone numbers is hard coded and based on
your dialing location. Some users have reported success by placing the phone number in quotes. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Jean971" wrote in message ... Phone number formatting OL2003 Hi How I can remove the brackets insertion in the contacts phone formatting My phone list includes a lot of foreign phone numbers that hold different number of digits All the phone numbers of the contacts list are formatted with brackets positioned differently according to digit number Actions / Call contacts / New calls / Dialing options /setting for phone number formatting and dialing shows an unchecked and not accessible "Automatically add country code to local phone number" Is there someone who can give me the clue on how to remove the brackets insertion on phone number formatting? Thanks |
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Thanks,
With you response- meaning it is not possible to remove brackets- I used the following tricky tip. If outlook want to insert brackets, let position them myself!. I move all my contacts to excel via Export. Attention map customs fields should be "Default map", otherwise you loose data In Excel, Use replace to change "+" (which is preceding all my number for local and international calls) into "() + ) This way all my phone number are becoming in text format and I can remove and insert spaces for instance to make phone number reading more efficient. Once it is done, come back to outlook and import the excel data, again by using Import from a file and the default mapping Attention it is necessary to expand the 3 Email field and to assign a mapping origin, otherwise you loose all Email from Excel Once it is done, your contact list is showing brackets positioned where you did in Excel, The advantage is that outlook is no longer formatting the phone numbers and you can individually position spaces within the phone/Fax / Mobile number to ease reading This way you can also transfer you contact data to Ipaq and P900 with the same contacts presentation -----Original Message----- No good way to do this. Masking of phone numbers is hard coded and based on your dialing location. Some users have reported success by placing the phone number in quotes. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Jean971" wrote in message ... Phone number formatting OL2003 Hi How I can remove the brackets insertion in the contacts phone formatting My phone list includes a lot of foreign phone numbers that hold different number of digits All the phone numbers of the contacts list are formatted with brackets positioned differently according to digit number Actions / Call contacts / New calls / Dialing options /setting for phone number formatting and dialing shows an unchecked and not accessible "Automatically add country code to local phone number" Is there someone who can give me the clue on how to remove the brackets insertion on phone number formatting? Thanks . |
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Cool. Not sure I'll be recommending it to anyone, but glad it worked for
you. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "jean971" wrote in message ... Thanks, With you response- meaning it is not possible to remove brackets- I used the following tricky tip. If outlook want to insert brackets, let position them myself!. I move all my contacts to excel via Export. Attention map customs fields should be "Default map", otherwise you loose data In Excel, Use replace to change "+" (which is preceding all my number for local and international calls) into "() + ) This way all my phone number are becoming in text format and I can remove and insert spaces for instance to make phone number reading more efficient. Once it is done, come back to outlook and import the excel data, again by using Import from a file and the default mapping Attention it is necessary to expand the 3 Email field and to assign a mapping origin, otherwise you loose all Email from Excel Once it is done, your contact list is showing brackets positioned where you did in Excel, The advantage is that outlook is no longer formatting the phone numbers and you can individually position spaces within the phone/Fax / Mobile number to ease reading This way you can also transfer you contact data to Ipaq and P900 with the same contacts presentation -----Original Message----- No good way to do this. Masking of phone numbers is hard coded and based on your dialing location. Some users have reported success by placing the phone number in quotes. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Jean971" wrote in message ... Phone number formatting OL2003 Hi How I can remove the brackets insertion in the contacts phone formatting My phone list includes a lot of foreign phone numbers that hold different number of digits All the phone numbers of the contacts list are formatted with brackets positioned differently according to digit number Actions / Call contacts / New calls / Dialing options /setting for phone number formatting and dialing shows an unchecked and not accessible "Automatically add country code to local phone number" Is there someone who can give me the clue on how to remove the brackets insertion on phone number formatting? Thanks . |
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