Telephone number formatting

[Guest]

I never ever use Outlook to dial any numbers.

I do not want it to pop up any windows regarding the format of telephone numbers I enter into it. I do not want it to ask me information about what country I'm in, what city code I'm in, etcetera every time I add a telephone number to one of my contacts. When I enter it in, it's in a format that I as a user recognise, and corresponds exactly to what I would dial.

How do I get Outlook to go away and leave me alone? I just want to type in a number and save it for my own records. I don't want it to do anything fancy with anything.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

You can't. That behavior is hard coded. Outlook will forever try to format
the phone number for you, and until you tell it your location, it will
complain because it can't autoformat your phone number.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I never ever use Outlook to dial any numbers.

I do not want it to pop up any windows regarding the format of telephone

numbers I enter into it. I do not want it to ask me information about what
country I'm in, what city code I'm in, etcetera every time I add a telephone
number to one of my contacts. When I enter it in, it's in a format that I
as a user recognise, and corresponds exactly to what I would dial.

How do I get Outlook to go away and leave me alone? I just want to type

in a number and save it for my own records. I don't want it to do anything
fancy with anything.

 

[Guest]

Ugh

I hope somebody at Microsoft changes that behaviour in the next release. It's incredibly intrusive and annoying.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Good idea. You can send Outlook feature requests to (e-mail address removed)
with "Outlook" in the subject and to (e-mail address removed)

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Ugh.

I hope somebody at Microsoft changes that behaviour in the next release.

It's incredibly intrusive and annoying.

 

[Guest]

How does this really work
I have now registred 20 contacts without any trouble but all of a sudde
outlook starts to add my own areacode to the numbers when I try to sav
the contacts. Obviusly this is not acceptable and I regard it as a bug since I havn'
found any way to avoid that.
What I really try to do is to use outlook to produce a clean contact list to export t
my mobile phone and the phone won't accept the pharanthesis that outlook adds to the numbers.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

That's not a bug. It's the way Outlook is designed. Marion just showed you a
workaround: don't set a dialing location.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

How does this really work?
I have now registred 20 contacts without any trouble but all of a sudden
outlook starts to add my own areacode to the numbers when I try to save
the contacts. Obviusly this is not acceptable and I regard it as a bug since I havn't
found any way to avoid that.
What I really try to do is to use outlook to produce a clean contact list to export to
my mobile phone and the phone won't accept the pharanthesis that outlook

adds to the numbers.

 

[Guest]

That I also figured out from Marions note but the problem for me i
that I can't find a way to remove the dialing connection, the delete butto
is not active. That is why I called it a bug.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

What do you mean "remove the dialing connection?" Just set a null dialing
location.

 

[Guest]

Ok Russ

Please explain to me as to a child, step by step how I shoud do that, becaus
I think I have tried every possible way to do it without success

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Well I'd ask Marion, since I've never done it and never would. Marion's the
one who managed to set up an OS with no dialing location specified.

I suspect the method will vary with your OS. If you go into Phone and modem
options in Control Panel, the Edit Location Tab will contain the country and
area code information for your default dialing location. Set it to a null
entry. If your OS won't let you do that, set it to an invalid one (like
12345). That may confuse Outlook enough that it will stop autoformatting
your numbers.