how to stop outlook adding brackets to phone numbers??

[agoodwin]

Is this even possible?? When I enter phone number with spaces, Outlook
2007 inserts brackets
automatically. This is just another one of those immensely irritating
features of MS products that appears to have no 'off switch'.

(And don't get me started on the question as to 'why can't we have a
standard formatting for phone numbers??' -some countries group the
numbers in pairs, some in threes, some with brackets, some without... )

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

outlook formats the number based on your windows settings - control panel,
modem and phone options, dialing location.

 

[Aidan Corey]

outlookmvp wrote on Mon, 10 March 2008 17:04

outlook formats the number based on your windows settings - control panel,
modem and phone options, dialing location.

Which country do I have to be in to stop Outlook inserting parentheses in international numbers (ones starting with '+')?

I like my international numbers in the correct (ITU E.123) format, so they should never have parentheses.

 

[Snapper]

Aidan Corey wrote...

outlookmvp wrote on Mon, 10 March 2008 17:04


Which country do I have to be in to stop Outlook inserting parentheses in international numbers (ones starting with '+')?

I like my international numbers in the correct (ITU E.123) format, so they should never have parentheses.

What is this format?

In Australia we have ten digit phone numbers.

eg:

03-9999-9999

where 03 is the area code for the state of Victoria, the first four digits
generally denote a small geographical region or telephone exchange, and
then the line itself.

The format for most can be like this:

(03) 9999-9999.

Then we have mobile phone (cellular phone) number format as such:

0400-111-111

The first 4 digits generally is assigned to specific carriers. or used to
be til number portability between carriers was allowed.

But Outlook formats the mobile numbers like this:

(04) 0011-1111.

I see it most in my PDA which sync's with Outlook (Windows Mobile 6). I
wish that I could get both Outlook and the PDA to display the numbers
"correctly".