I enjoyed how Outlook reformatted my phone number automatically but it QUIT,
now if I enter a 10 digit phone number with no brackets, no dashed, no spaces
it stays that way. Why did Outlook stop auto-formatting the phone number.

Darrell


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Masking of phone numbers in Outlook is hard coded and not subject to user
control.
In some later versions, masking is turned off if you set a null dialing
location for your entire operating system, but that's hardly a practical
workaround.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Willi" wrote in message
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When adding phone no's in Outlook contacts, they auto format with brackets
for the first two numbers as for area code and then dash in the middle of
the
numbers.
How can that be turned off ?
My country settings are for Australia.
I have tried formatting options in outlook as described in knowledgebase,
but nothing seems to make a difference.
Thanks