Hi,

I have a public contacts folder set up in outlook 2000. Unfortunately the
phone numbers were typed in the following format + 1 - 232 - 67890 (spaces
and dashes as shown). We have now upgraded to outlook 2003 and now when we
add new contacts the phone number format is set to +1 232 - 6789, even though
we type in the format originally used (BTW the contacts form is moified which
stops the numbers being underlined for some reason). The problem I have is
that the 1300+ contacts that where already there need changing to match the
new format. I have tried changing and reseting the Dialing properties to
another country and back to UK, and exporting to PST file and re-importing,
but no luck.

Does anyone know how to automatically reset the existing phone numbers to
the new format please.

Thanks

How Outlook masks phone numbers is hard coded and cannot be changed. You
might ask in a programming group whether Ken Slovak or any of the other ISV
programmers has developed code to do this.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"keviom" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I have a public contacts folder set up in outlook 2000. Unfortunately the
phone numbers were typed in the following format + 1 - 232 - 67890 (spaces
and dashes as shown). We have now upgraded to outlook 2003 and now when we
add new contacts the phone number format is set to +1 232 - 6789, even
though
we type in the format originally used (BTW the contacts form is moified
which
stops the numbers being underlined for some reason). The problem I have is
that the 1300+ contacts that where already there need changing to match
the
new format. I have tried changing and reseting the Dialing properties to
another country and back to UK, and exporting to PST file and
re-importing,
but no luck.

Does anyone know how to automatically reset the existing phone numbers to
the new format please.

Thanks

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I know it's hard coded for formating new numbers, I
just wondered if there was a way to get the system to reformat existing
numbers to the hardcoded standard. I don't fancy having to re-enter over 1300
entries just to get phone numbers in the same format.


Kevin

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

How Outlook masks phone numbers is hard coded and cannot be changed. You
might ask in a programming group whether Ken Slovak or any of the other ISV
programmers has developed code to do this.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"keviom" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I have a public contacts folder set up in outlook 2000. Unfortunately the
phone numbers were typed in the following format + 1 - 232 - 67890 (spaces
and dashes as shown). We have now upgraded to outlook 2003 and now when we
add new contacts the phone number format is set to +1 232 - 6789, even
though
we type in the format originally used (BTW the contacts form is moified
which
stops the numbers being underlined for some reason). The problem I have is
that the 1300+ contacts that where already there need changing to match
the
new format. I have tried changing and reseting the Dialing properties to
another country and back to UK, and exporting to PST file and
re-importing,
but no luck.

Does anyone know how to automatically reset the existing phone numbers to
the new format please.

Thanks

keviom wrote:

Thanks for the reply. I know it's hard coded for formating new
numbers, I just wondered if there was a way to get the system to
reformat existing numbers to the hardcoded standard. I don't fancy
having to re-enter over 1300 entries just to get phone numbers in the
same format.

There are a number of third-party tools that can do the job. Start he
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/contacts_entry.asp
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]