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Automatic area code insertion in Outlook.





 
 
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Old January 18th 06, 05:49 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
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Default Automatic area code insertion in Outlook.

Outlook should NOT Automatically insert area codes in contacts!!! How do I
disable this feature???

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Old January 18th 06, 07:31 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
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Default Automatic area code insertion in Outlook.

You can't. Masking of phone numbers is hard coded and based on your default
dialing location.
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"V" wrote in message
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Outlook should NOT Automatically insert area codes in contacts!!! How do I
disable this feature???

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Old December 5th 06, 10:19 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Campbell
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Default Automatic area code insertion in Outlook.

Russ, I am using XP Professional and Outlook 2003 (with BCM). For the last
year or so I have been entering phone numbers without the STD codes, which is
exactly how I like it. However, following a hard disk failure and having to
reload all my software, I now always get those blasted STD codes in
parenthesis. There is obviously a way of avoiding them as I had been doing it
for ages, but can't remember how!

Can you help?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

You can't. Masking of phone numbers is hard coded and based on your default
dialing location.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"V" wrote in message
...
Outlook should NOT Automatically insert area codes in contacts!!! How do I
disable this feature???

----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow

this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.


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ca-43a0-ac75-56d6a29b5823&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.contacts



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Old December 5th 06, 10:32 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Campbell
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Default Automatic area code insertion in Outlook.

Just to add to my last message, when I restored my BCM database, all the
phone numbers are as I had always entered them - i.e. without STD codes. When
I add a new number, it now has the codes.

"Campbell" wrote:

Russ, I am using XP Professional and Outlook 2003 (with BCM). For the last
year or so I have been entering phone numbers without the STD codes, which is
exactly how I like it. However, following a hard disk failure and having to
reload all my software, I now always get those blasted STD codes in
parenthesis. There is obviously a way of avoiding them as I had been doing it
for ages, but can't remember how!

Can you help?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

You can't. Masking of phone numbers is hard coded and based on your default
dialing location.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"V" wrote in message
...
Outlook should NOT Automatically insert area codes in contacts!!! How do I
disable this feature???

----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow

this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.


http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...id=1ab5e266-ab
ca-43a0-ac75-56d6a29b5823&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.contacts



  #5  
Old December 5th 06, 10:43 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
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Default Automatic area code insertion in Outlook.

Outlook does this by default. The behavior cannot be changd. The previous
behavior is an anomaly that so far only you have produced, so you will need
to provide the steps to reproduce it.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Campbell" wrote in message
...
Russ, I am using XP Professional and Outlook 2003 (with BCM). For the last
year or so I have been entering phone numbers without the STD codes, which
is
exactly how I like it. However, following a hard disk failure and having
to
reload all my software, I now always get those blasted STD codes in
parenthesis. There is obviously a way of avoiding them as I had been doing
it
for ages, but can't remember how!

Can you help?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

You can't. Masking of phone numbers is hard coded and based on your
default
dialing location.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"V" wrote in message
...
Outlook should NOT Automatically insert area codes in contacts!!! How
do I
disable this feature???

----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the
"I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow

this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and
then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.


http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...id=1ab5e266-ab
ca-43a0-ac75-56d6a29b5823&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.contacts




  #6  
Old December 5th 06, 01:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Brian Tillman
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Default Automatic area code insertion in Outlook.

Campbell wrote:

Just to add to my last message, when I restored my BCM database, all
the phone numbers are as I had always entered them - i.e. without STD
codes. When I add a new number, it now has the codes.


When you configure your dialing properties in Windows Control Panel, you
initiate Outlook's masking of phone numbers. Apparently you did not have
dialing properties defined before and now you do.
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Brian Tillman

  #7  
Old December 5th 06, 08:57 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
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Default Automatic area code insertion in Outlook.

However, failing to set a dialing location in the OS is not a solution for
preventing masking. In most instance that just hangs Outlook during new
Contact creation.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
...
Campbell wrote:

Just to add to my last message, when I restored my BCM database, all
the phone numbers are as I had always entered them - i.e. without STD
codes. When I add a new number, it now has the codes.


When you configure your dialing properties in Windows Control Panel, you
initiate Outlook's masking of phone numbers. Apparently you did not have
dialing properties defined before and now you do.
--
Brian Tillman


 




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