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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / December 2006Remove brackets from phone numbers in contacts
When I input numbers in international format in Outlook 2003 Contacts, brackets are added automatically around the fisrt number or numbers following the country code. How do I remove this irritating facility? You can't. This behavior is hard coded.  SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > When I input numbers in international format in Outlook 2003 Contacts, > brackets are added automatically around the fisrt number or numbers > following > the country code. How do I remove this irritating facility? Oh, what a bore... > You can't. This behavior is hard coded. > > When I input numbers in international format in Outlook 2003 Contacts, > > brackets are added automatically around the fisrt number or numbers > > following > > the country code. How do I remove this irritating facility? Thanks, I will just have to live with it... > You can't. This behavior is hard coded. > > When I input numbers in international format in Outlook 2003 Contacts, > > brackets are added automatically around the fisrt number or numbers > > following > > the country code. How do I remove this irritating facility? Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] <russval@gmail.com> skreiv Tue, 03 Jan 2006 04:00:06 +0100 > You can't. This behavior is hard coded. And badly so. I can't see the problem letting the *users* decide how to show their data, but then again, this is Microsoft. - Y J Landro SignatureOpera - the natural choice for the concerning net surfer: http://www.opera.com Why are only a handfull of numbers effected then? Most contacts read as they should - 123456789 with only maybe 10% reading (12) 345-6789......STRANGE! marto > Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] <russval@gmail.com> skreiv Tue, 03 Jan 2006 > 04:00:06 +0100 [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > - Y J Landro You tell us. You posted no information. Outlook masks numbers automatically. You have no control over it. What you did to circumvent it, only you know. Typically this means your TAPI settings were corrupt. Were they? SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Why are only a handfull of numbers effected then? Most contacts read as > they [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >> >> - Y J Landro Good question...what did I do. I have a pda phone which is where all my contacts first came from, it sync's through Activesync 4.2 to Outlook 2003. Not 100% sure but from what I can gather I think the first ever time I sync'ed the numbers were all normal, I think the brackets and dashes have appeared if I have edited or added contacts since - either at pda or pc end. As for TAPI not sure what this stands for but will do some searching. Thanks for your thoughts. marto > You tell us. You posted no information. Outlook masks numbers automatically. > You have no control over it. What you did to circumvent it, only you know. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > >> > >> - Y J Landro Using import or synch to populate fields often results in corrupt entries in Outlook. As soon as you edit a field or enter the information conventionally, it will be formatted correctly. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Good question...what did I do. > [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] >> >> >> >> - Y J Landro
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