Wrong again. The '+' is a standard, but some places use parenthesis, others
hyphens. Over the last ten years, the use of periods has grown among high
tech and a few other companies. Many moons ago, when I was a programmer,
we'd never think of limiting to a single format. It's called "parsing". Study
it.

BTW: The internet's a great thing. Check out some pages.
http://www.colorado.edu/Publications...html#telephone,
university publications standard saying parens shouldn't be used.

http://www.dfas.mil/contractorpay/el...i/810SAMMS.pdf,
Military EDI interchange spec, specifying no punctuation in phone numbers so
folks can format themselves

Just about everywhere else you check, you'll see that specs are set to be
format independent. Try it.

David

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

David Teich wrote:

Who decided that brilliant one? Every culture does it differently,
and for a few folks in Redmond to hardcode that is tragically
incompetent.

There are international standards for telephony and Outlook complies with
them, as far as I can tell. You are asking for a non-standard expression of
the phone number.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]