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Old February 20th 07, 12:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
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Default How to turn off auto format phone no's in outlook Bracket+dash

Yes it is a right royal pain sometimes, just enter () before the contact and
that will not put in an area code.
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Old February 20th 07, 01:08 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
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Default How to turn off auto format phone no's in outlook Bracket+dash

preceding the number with any character that is not normally used in phone
numbers works to bypass automatic formatting. This is any character except
the dash, period, and space. Letters work too.

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Yes it is a right royal pain sometimes, just enter () before the contact
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that will not put in an area code.


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Old February 20th 07, 11:07 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
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"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

preceding the number with any character that is not normally used in phone
numbers works to bypass automatic formatting. This is any character except
the dash, period, and space. Letters work too.


having other characters may be ok for outlook but can cause problems when
sent via tapi to an asterisk server.
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Old February 21st 07, 01:46 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
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Default How to turn off auto format phone no's in outlook Bracket+dash

if you dialing the #, if the area code /area code rules are configured it
should dial correctly without the area code.

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"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

preceding the number with any character that is not normally used in
phone
numbers works to bypass automatic formatting. This is any character
except
the dash, period, and space. Letters work too.


having other characters may be ok for outlook but can cause problems when
sent via tapi to an asterisk server.



 




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