I am using Outlook 2000 and I changed all of my phone numbers to use hyphens
("-") in the format (I don't want the parenthesis "( )"). Outlook then
defaults all phone numbers back to parenthesis - WHY?

I have my default dialing location set and it still defaults my format to
parenthesis (even the dialing location dialog box example shows hyphens
X-XXX-XXX-XXXX).

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

That would depend on your OS.
Most use the Phone and modems utility in Control Panel.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"msj" wrote in message
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How do you set the default dialing location for OS?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Just set your default dialing location for your operating system.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"thuinker" wrote in message
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With Office 2003 on another machine, I could enter a phone number into
one
of
the phone number fields in a new (or old) contact as a straight
10-digit
string, or with dashes between area code and prefix and between prefix
and
the rest of the number, and when I tabbe out of the field, Outlook
would
format it into (XXX) XXX-XXXX. I recently installed Office 2003 onto a
replacement notebook, and this installation does not format the phone
numbers. Where is the switch I need to throw?