Nothing changed in Outlook 2002. How did you configure Outlook's dialing
options? Did you set it to automatically add the country code?
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"Al" wrote in message
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I have just upgrade from outlook 2000 to 2002. I have set all the
telephone number fields in international form of:
+country code number
So that a UK number will be entered as:
+44 20 6060 xxxx

For some reason my outlook 2002 does not like the + symbol and always
removes it. Whatever I've tried I cannot get it to start any telephone
number with +. I had no problem whatsoever with outlook 2000. How do
In get over this problem in outlook 2002?

Al wrote:

I don't know anything about dialling options - I have never previously
used them. I'm not using outlook for dialling.

That doesn't matter. Outlook used the Windows dialing options values to
format the phone number cirrectly.
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Brian Tillman

As I said, in Outlook's dialing options, which you invoke from the New
call... dialog box. (Actions Call Contact New Call...)
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"Al" wrote in message
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On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:59:07 -0400, Brian Tillman wrote:

Al wrote:

I don't know anything about dialling options - I have never previously
used them. I'm not using outlook for dialling.

That doesn't matter. Outlook used the Windows dialing options values to
format the phone number cirrectly.

So where or how do I set these options in Outlook for formatting the
displayed contact telephone numbers? I want to display the
international telephone numbers in my contacts in a format starting
with a + and without display of any parentheses, eg
+country code nnnn nnnnnn
where country code is the international country code and
n represents only digits of a local number.

It lets you set the option to automatically add the country code to your
numbers. That includes the +

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"Al" wrote in message
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On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 05:48:42 -0400, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
wrote:

As I said, in Outlook's dialing options, which you invoke from the New
call... dialog box. (Actions Call Contact New Call...)

I have been looking at that, but can find nowhere to specify the
format of the way I want international phone numbers to be displayed
in my contacts. After I go to Actions Call Contact New Call,,,
where is the dialogue that enables me to specify the telephone number
display format when I enter a new contact record?

It's right in front of you:
Dialing Options...
Check the box called "Automatically add country/region code to local phone
numbers"

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"Al" wrote in message
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On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:24:58 -0400, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
wrote:

It lets you set the option to automatically add the country code to your
numbers. That includes the +

But where - I can't see it. Please tell me which dialogue I need to
enter to specify this.

Wonder why? What have you not set up correctly? Does your operating system
know your default dialing location?
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"Al" [email protected] wrote in message
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On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:26:32 -0400, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
wrote:

It's right in front of you:
Dialing Options...
Check the box called "Automatically add country/region code to local phone
numbers"

That option is greyed out.

put in your home area code information - it won't matter if you never dial
with it.

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"Al" [email protected] wrote in message
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On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:49:53 -0400, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
wrote:

Wonder why? What have you not set up correctly? Does your operating system
know your default dialing location?

I never use the system for dialling out. Because of that I wasn't sure
what to put in "dialling location" and as it's a portable PC it could
be located anywhere. Since I'm not planning to use it for dialling out
in future either I just put some arbitrary digits in there hoping this
fussy system would be happy.

All I use Outlook for is to store data (including phone numbers)
without any intention of actually dialling anything.

But Outlook has to know your dialing location in order to know how to add
the country code. You can set your default dialing location even if you have
no intention of making calls from your computer.
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"Al" [email protected] wrote in message
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On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:49:53 -0400, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
wrote:

Wonder why? What have you not set up correctly? Does your operating system
know your default dialing location?

I never use the system for dialling out. Because of that I wasn't sure
what to put in "dialling location" and as it's a portable PC it could
be located anywhere. Since I'm not planning to use it for dialling out
in future either I just put some arbitrary digits in there hoping this
fussy system would be happy.

All I use Outlook for is to store data (including phone numbers)
without any intention of actually dialling anything.

you are really making it more confusing that you need to. Just pick a valid
area code and type it in - if you are in the US, use 202. Outlook needs this
to determine what is local, long distance, or international. It won't matter
for local calls since you don't dial using outlook. or windows.

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"Al" [email protected] wrote in message
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On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:05:28 -0400, Diane Poremsky [MVP] wrote:

put in your home area code information - it won't matter if you never dial
with it.

I have a couple of problems with that:

1 The concept of "home area code" doesn't mean a lot to me. For normal
calls from home, I either use one of several VoIPs or mobiles. The
"area codes" associated with these are not related to where I am
geographically located.
2 What format of characters does Outlook require in order that it may
happily accept my fake "area code"?

In view of the above, I have just set up a dummy dialling location
"Home" and put in some arbitrary digits. Since I'm not sure as to what
format of digits or characters Outlook requires, I don't know what
effect this will have on my original problem.

Following on from this, it would be helpful if Microsoft Outlook
developers would recognise that the proliferation of VoIP, mobile and
other telecoms initiatives mean that the concept of "area code" is,
for many people like myself, no longer relevant. As far as I am
concerned, all the entries in my address book comprise a +country
code followed by a string of digits. For me there is no distinction
between "local" and "long distance" calls: the method of dialling
within my country is the same regardless of whether I'm calling my
neighbour or someone far far away.

you need to set up dialing rules to tell outlook to always dial the code
even in the home code area.

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"Al" [email protected] wrote in message
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On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 08:47:27 -0400, Diane Poremsky [MVP] wrote:

you are really making it more confusing that you need to. Just pick a
valid
area code and type it in - if you are in the US, use 202. Outlook needs
this
to determine what is local, long distance, or international. It won't
matter
for local calls since you don't dial using outlook. or windows.

I'm un the UK. One of the reasons I stopped using Outlook for dialling
is because of it's insistence on having an "area code". The problem
with it was that ALL my numbers have to be dialled with full national
number regardless of the recipient. Irritatingly Outlook removed part
of my dialled number if it happened to coincide what I put in "area
code". the result was that my call didn't get through.

Anyway I've put my dummy area code as 911 as that is a code never used
here.