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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / January 2004Telephone number formatting
I never ever use Outlook to dial any numbers. I do not want it to pop up any windows regarding the format of telephone numbers I enter into it. I do not want it to ask me information about what country I'm in, what city code I'm in, etcetera every time I add a telephone number to one of my contacts. When I enter it in, it's in a format that I as a user recognise, and corresponds exactly to what I would dial. How do I get Outlook to go away and leave me alone? I just want to type in a number and save it for my own records. I don't want it to do anything fancy with anything. You can't. That behavior is hard coded. Outlook will forever try to format the phone number for you, and until you tell it your location, it will complain because it can't autoformat your phone number.  SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > I never ever use Outlook to dial any numbers. > > I do not want it to pop up any windows regarding the format of telephone numbers I enter into it. I do not want it to ask me information about what country I'm in, what city code I'm in, etcetera every time I add a telephone number to one of my contacts. When I enter it in, it's in a format that I as a user recognise, and corresponds exactly to what I would dial. > How do I get Outlook to go away and leave me alone? I just want to type in a number and save it for my own records. I don't want it to do anything fancy with anything. Ugh I hope somebody at Microsoft changes that behaviour in the next release. It's incredibly intrusive and annoying. Good idea. You can send Outlook feature requests to mswish@microsoft.com with "Outlook" in the subject and to outwish@microsoft.com SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Ugh. > > I hope somebody at Microsoft changes that behaviour in the next release. It's incredibly intrusive and annoying. How does this really work I have now registred 20 contacts without any trouble but all of a sudde outlook starts to add my own areacode to the numbers when I try to sav the contacts. Obviusly this is not acceptable and I regard it as a bug since I havn' found any way to avoid that. What I really try to do is to use outlook to produce a clean contact list to export t my mobile phone and the phone won't accept the pharanthesis that outlook adds to the numbers. That's not a bug. It's the way Outlook is designed. Marion just showed you a workaround: don't set a dialing location. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > How does this really work? > I have now registred 20 contacts without any trouble but all of a sudden [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > What I really try to do is to use outlook to produce a clean contact list to export to > my mobile phone and the phone won't accept the pharanthesis that outlook adds to the numbers. That I also figured out from Marions note but the problem for me i that I can't find a way to remove the dialing connection, the delete butto is not active. That is why I called it a bug. What do you mean "remove the dialing connection?" Just set a null dialing location. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > That I also figured out from Marions note but the problem for me is > that I can't find a way to remove the dialing connection, the delete button > is not active. That is why I called it a bug. Ok Russ Please explain to me as to a child, step by step how I shoud do that, becaus I think I have tried every possible way to do it without success Well I'd ask Marion, since I've never done it and never would. Marion's the one who managed to set up an OS with no dialing location specified. I suspect the method will vary with your OS. If you go into Phone and modem options in Control Panel, the Edit Location Tab will contain the country and area code information for your default dialing location. Set it to a null entry. If your OS won't let you do that, set it to an invalid one (like 12345). That may confuse Outlook enough that it will stop autoformatting your numbers. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Ok Russ, > > Please explain to me as to a child, step by step how I shoud do that, because > I think I have tried every possible way to do it without success. |
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