Phone Dialer with Calling Card

[shatnes]

I am using a PIM called Time & Chaos which uses Windows XP's phone
dialer to dial my phone and it works great except when I use a calling
card. Any area code except the local one is seen as a long distance and
it uses my calling card. The only problem is when I want to dial
tollfree numbers such as1800. If I tell the dialer to add a 1 in front
of the 800 number, it thinks it is a long distance number and invokes
the calling card. If I leave off the 1 so phone dialer sees the number
as a local number, the call doesn't go through.

Is there any way to tell phone dialer to use a calling card for the
long distance calls except for the tollfree numbers 1800, 1888 etc.?

 

[CS]

I am using a PIM called Time & Chaos which uses Windows XP's phone
dialer to dial my phone and it works great except when I use a calling
card. Any area code except the local one is seen as a long distance and
it uses my calling card. The only problem is when I want to dial
tollfree numbers such as1800. If I tell the dialer to add a 1 in front
of the 800 number, it thinks it is a long distance number and invokes
the calling card. If I leave off the 1 so phone dialer sees the number
as a local number, the call doesn't go through.

Is there any way to tell phone dialer to use a calling card for the
long distance calls except for the tollfree numbers 1800, 1888 etc.?

Have you tried to configure the phone dialer? Open the phone dialer
by itself (not from T&C), go thru the options and see if you can make
the changes you desire. Click Start, Run, type in "dialer.exe"
without the quotes.

I haven't used the phone dialer since Win98 days but I know in that
version of phone dialer there were options that could be set regarding
area codes and toll free numbers. I don't believe the dialer has
changed all that much since then. If configuring the dialer doesn't
help, you might give the folks at T&C a call and ask for help. They
have great support. Good luck.

 

[shatnes]

I am referring to the phone dialer.

If I tell the phone dialer to put a 1 in front of the 800 number than
it uses the calling card because that is the indicator for a long
distance number. I want to use the calling card for all long distance
calls except the toll free numbers.

It doesn't make sense to pay for a toll free call.

 

[shatnes]

Ok!!

I figured out how to indicate to the phone dialer that the 1800 and
similar numbers should not be used with a calling card.

First you must store the number in this format (18xx)-xxx-xxxx in
whichever program calls phone dialer. It is very important to have the
parentheses around the first portion. The other long distance numbers
should not have a "1" in front, the phone dialer will add it.

In the area code rules in phone dialer you should list with your local
area code all the toll free area codes with a "1" in front like 1800 or
1888 and make sure you check the box that says include area code, but
do not check the one that says to dial a "1".

Works like a charm!!!

Now if some one knows how to tell the phone dialer to dial
extensions...