Because masking of phone numbers in Outlook is hard coded and not subject to
end user configuration. That design is intentional. Outlook's formats must
be consistent. How can developers of synchronization software write programs
if they don't know what format Outlook's data will be?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"EPB" wrote in message
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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?