How do I change the format of the phone numbers in Outlook?

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PDub - 25 Nov 2004 03:29 GMT

I need to change them from (###) ###-#### to ###-###-####. How?

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 25 Nov 2004 11:21 GMT

How Outlook masks phone numbers is based on your dialing location. It is
hard coded and cannot be changed. The only ways I know of to prevent
Outlook's masking of phone numbers are:
1. Enclose the phone numbers in quotes.
2. Set your operating system's dialing location to a null value. Current OS
do not permit you to do this through the GUI.

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

>I need to change them from (###) ###-#### to ###-###-####. How?

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PDub - 29 Nov 2004 03:47 GMT

Russ, thank you for the answer but it definitely is not the answer I was
hoping for. It to me is just further proof that Microsoft is determined to
mold all the world's output in their image, controlled by them, and that
stinks.

Paul-Wesley Bowen
San Jose, California

"Gates proves that megalomania lives and can be successful".

(and you can quote me on that.)

> How Outlook masks phone numbers is based on your dialing location. It is
> hard coded and cannot be changed. The only ways I know of to prevent
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> do not permit you to do this through the GUI.
> >I need to change them from (###) ###-#### to ###-###-####. How?

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