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Old July 20th 08, 09:15 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
MonocleMike
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Default Stop bracketting false area code when displaying phone no

Thank you for your help. I believe that the masking rules depend upon the
country code. Is there a country which does not have area codes? Where can
I find the masking rules? I could then choose a country that does it the way
I want and then also use the facility to turn off the automatic adding of the
country code.

Yes, I could put them in quotes but it clutters up the printed list.

Incidentally it is weird the way Outlook has only recently started
formatting the numbers. I have loads in there already that I edited manually
to be the way I want them but now cannot re-edit them without them being
formatted.


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

As I said, you can't. How Outlook masks numbers is hard coded. Why not place
the number in quotes so Outlook won't recognize it or store the number in a
different field?
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Old July 20th 08, 03:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
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Default Stop bracketting false area code when displaying phone no

Outlook has always done this and cannot be configured otherwise. The only
time it doesn't is when your telephony registry keys are missing or damaged,
which is not a condition you can willingly replicate:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/258171/en-us
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Russ Valentine
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"MonocleMike" wrote in message
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Thank you for your help. I believe that the masking rules depend upon the
country code. Is there a country which does not have area codes? Where
can
I find the masking rules? I could then choose a country that does it the
way
I want and then also use the facility to turn off the automatic adding of
the
country code.

Yes, I could put them in quotes but it clutters up the printed list.

Incidentally it is weird the way Outlook has only recently started
formatting the numbers. I have loads in there already that I edited
manually
to be the way I want them but now cannot re-edit them without them being
formatted.


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

As I said, you can't. How Outlook masks numbers is hard coded. Why not
place
the number in quotes so Outlook won't recognize it or store the number in
a
different field?
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