is it possible to see an incoming phone call id in an excel cell?.

[Guest]

is it possible to see an incoming phone call id in an excel cell?...
i ve caller id display installed on my phone line i can see the caller id on
bt's little box also i ve tried few programs that gets caller id using modem
info.
but all these dont (cant) connect caller id infoin an excel cell which then
retrieves info about customer who ownes the number.
thanks
ray

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi
so you want a CTI solution? Never did this with Excel but as so many
things it should be possible
- First it depends on your telephone system. What telephone solution
are you using
- If this is a professional telephone solution the provider probably
has some tools to process the caller-ID. This should have an open API
which should be accessible via Excel / VBA

The main issue is there's no standard for this caller-ID. So it depends
on your telephone installation in most cases. What are you using
exactly?