How to turn off auto format phone no's in outlook Bracket+dash

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When adding phone no's in Outlook contacts, they auto format with brackets
for the first two numbers as for area code and then dash in the middle of the
numbers.
How can that be turned off ?
My country settings are for Australia.
I have tried formatting options in outlook as described in knowledgebase,
but nothing seems to make a difference.
Thanks
 
Masking of phone numbers in Outlook is hard coded and not subject to user
control.
In some later versions, masking is turned off if you set a <null> dialing
location for your entire operating system, but that's hardly a practical
workaround.
 
Yes it is a right royal pain sometimes, just enter () before the contact and
that will not put in an area code.
 
preceding the number with any character that is not normally used in phone
numbers works to bypass automatic formatting. This is any character except
the dash, period, and space. Letters work too.
 
Diane Poremsky said:
preceding the number with any character that is not normally used in phone
numbers works to bypass automatic formatting. This is any character except
the dash, period, and space. Letters work too.
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having other characters may be ok for outlook but can cause problems when
sent via tapi to an asterisk server.
 
if you dialing the #, if the area code /area code rules are configured it
should dial correctly without the area code.
 
I enjoyed how Outlook reformatted my phone number automatically but it QUIT,
now if I enter a 10 digit phone number with no brackets, no dashed, no spaces
it stays that way. Why did Outlook stop auto-formatting the phone number.

Darrell


Russ Valentine said:
Masking of phone numbers in Outlook is hard coded and not subject to user
control.
In some later versions, masking is turned off if you set a <null> dialing
location for your entire operating system, but that's hardly a practical
workaround.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Willi said:
When adding phone no's in Outlook contacts, they auto format with brackets
for the first two numbers as for area code and then dash in the middle of
the
numbers.
How can that be turned off ?
My country settings are for Australia.
I have tried formatting options in outlook as described in knowledgebase,
but nothing seems to make a difference.
Thanks
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Did you disable the Telephony service in windows? Set your dialing service
to use international freephone service?

To quickly figure out - click one of the number buttons - Business... etc.
If it doesn't work, the telephony service is disabled, if it adds +800, you
have it set to use the freephone service country coding.
http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2009/20090410.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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brainstewn said:
I enjoyed how Outlook reformatted my phone number automatically but it
QUIT,
now if I enter a 10 digit phone number with no brackets, no dashed, no
spaces
it stays that way. Why did Outlook stop auto-formatting the phone number.

Darrell


Russ Valentine said:
Masking of phone numbers in Outlook is hard coded and not subject to user
control.
In some later versions, masking is turned off if you set a <null> dialing
location for your entire operating system, but that's hardly a practical
workaround.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Willi said:
When adding phone no's in Outlook contacts, they auto format with
brackets
for the first two numbers as for area code and then dash in the middle
of
the
numbers.
How can that be turned off ?
My country settings are for Australia.
I have tried formatting options in outlook as described in
knowledgebase,
but nothing seems to make a difference.
Thanks
Click to expand...
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Hi Diane:

Thanks for the tip but I couldn't find "freephoneservice" in control
panel>phones&modems anywhere. telephony seems to be abled.

Any other ideas?

Diane Poremsky said:
Did you disable the Telephony service in windows? Set your dialing service
to use international freephone service?

To quickly figure out - click one of the number buttons - Business... etc.
If it doesn't work, the telephony service is disabled, if it adds +800, you
have it set to use the freephone service country coding.
http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2009/20090410.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx or point your
newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


brainstewn said:
I enjoyed how Outlook reformatted my phone number automatically but it
QUIT,
now if I enter a 10 digit phone number with no brackets, no dashed, no
spaces
it stays that way. Why did Outlook stop auto-formatting the phone number.

Darrell


Russ Valentine said:
Masking of phone numbers in Outlook is hard coded and not subject to user
control.
In some later versions, masking is turned off if you set a <null> dialing
location for your entire operating system, but that's hardly a practical
workaround.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
When adding phone no's in Outlook contacts, they auto format with
brackets
for the first two numbers as for area code and then dash in the middle
of
the
numbers.
How can that be turned off ?
My country settings are for Australia.
I have tried formatting options in outlook as described in
knowledgebase,
but nothing seems to make a difference.
Thanks
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What happens when you try to click the buttons labeled business..., home...
etc?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

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newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


brainstewn said:
Hi Diane:

Thanks for the tip but I couldn't find "freephoneservice" in control
panel>phones&modems anywhere. telephony seems to be abled.

Any other ideas?

Diane Poremsky said:
Did you disable the Telephony service in windows? Set your dialing
service
to use international freephone service?

To quickly figure out - click one of the number buttons - Business...
etc.
If it doesn't work, the telephony service is disabled, if it adds +800,
you
have it set to use the freephone service country coding.
http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2009/20090410.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx or point
your
newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


brainstewn said:
I enjoyed how Outlook reformatted my phone number automatically but it
QUIT,
now if I enter a 10 digit phone number with no brackets, no dashed, no
spaces
it stays that way. Why did Outlook stop auto-formatting the phone
number.

Darrell


:

Masking of phone numbers in Outlook is hard coded and not subject to
user
control.
In some later versions, masking is turned off if you set a <null>
dialing
location for your entire operating system, but that's hardly a
practical
workaround.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
When adding phone no's in Outlook contacts, they auto format with
brackets
for the first two numbers as for area code and then dash in the
middle
of
the
numbers.
How can that be turned off ?
My country settings are for Australia.
I have tried formatting options in outlook as described in
knowledgebase,
but nothing seems to make a difference.
Thanks
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