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

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

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?
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"marto_martin" wrote in message
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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

"Y J Landro" wrote:

Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] 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

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