Do you have your dialing properties set up in the modem applet in control panel?

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After furious head scratching, jmorg asked:

| When I enter a phone number in New Contact, Outlook 2003 does not
| automatically add hyphens and parentheses when I tab to the next
| line. I am a new user and I don't think I changed anything on start
| up.