Believe what you wish. Masking of phone numbers in Outlook is hard coded and
based on the default dialing location of your operating system and the
settings you specify in Outlook's dialing options.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Scott Garrett" wrote in message
...
I'm reluctant to accept this Russ, for the simple reason that some of my
contacts allow me to manually remove the area code and some do not. There
has
to be a reason for this. If I put info in from scratch as a local number,
there is no area code in my contact list. If I import a vCard from some
sources, the area code springs back after I've deleted it, as soon as I
hit
Save & Close. I have a £400 hand-held that is useless for phone calls
because
it can't read brackets and it's the brackets which Outlook insists on
putting
around area codes that causes me grief.

Can ANYONE out there tell me how to get rid of the brackets or even how to
reformat my vCard template to a different country format?
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Thanks in advance for your help

Scott.


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

You cannot change how Outlook masks phone numbers.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Rob" wrote in message
...
When entering a mobile phone number in contacts, outlook automatically
cutts
the leading digits off the number & re allocates them as an area code.
This
is incorrect and caused failure in dialing from a syncronised hand held
device. Can anyone help?