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July 21st 08, 08:19 PM
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in outlook 2007 can u chg the phone fmt to be - not () for prefix
I would like to change the default format for the phone number field in
Outlook 2007, contacts, to have only hyphens between the numbers. I do not want to have (xxx) for the area code. Is this possible? My desired format is xxx-xxx-xxxx . 
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July 21st 08, 10:43 PM
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in outlook 2007 can u chg the phone fmt to be - not () for prefix
No. Masking of phone numbers in Outlook is hard coded.
-- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "chefdave86" wrote in message ... I would like to change the default format for the phone number field in Outlook 2007, contacts, to have only hyphens between the numbers. I do not want to have (xxx) for the area code. Is this possible? My desired format is xxx-xxx-xxxx .
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August 1st 08, 12:37 PM
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in outlook 2007 can u chg the phone fmt to be - not () for pre
Who decided that brilliant one? Every culture does it differently, and for a
few folks in Redmond to hardcode that is tragically incompetent. Any chance they might do the right thing in the service pack? David "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: No. Masking of phone numbers in Outlook is hard coded. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "chefdave86" wrote in message ... I would like to change the default format for the phone number field in Outlook 2007, contacts, to have only hyphens between the numbers. I do not want to have (xxx) for the area code. Is this possible? My desired format is xxx-xxx-xxxx .
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August 1st 08, 05:13 PM
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in outlook 2007 can u chg the phone fmt to be - not () for pre
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]
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August 2nd 08, 10:37 AM
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in outlook 2007 can u chg the phone fmt to be - not () for pre
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]
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