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How do I add +1 to all my contact numbers?
I have seen posts where people want to remove the +1 in the phone number but
not add it. It is difficult to give a history of how my contact phone numbers ended up without the +1 as I have used many versions of Outlook and many third party CRM's in the past. I am currently using Office 2007 with Outlook and have about 2,000 contacts with phone, fax and cell numbers for each. About .05% of these are local calls so every time I make a call from my cell, I have to wait for the message that says, "please dial a ! before your number.....". Is there a way to edit the phone, fax and cell phone field for all contacts at the same time? If I recall correctly, ACT had a "global edit" command that made this type of batch editing very easy. Although, I also seem to remember finding a way to edit the name or address of a group of contacts in Outlook at the same time but there were at least ten times as many steps to accomplish the same thing. |
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How do I add +1 to all my contact numbers?
The problem is not the format of your phone numbers. It is with your dialing
rules. Not an Outlook issue. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Slider76" wrote in message ... I have seen posts where people want to remove the +1 in the phone number but not add it. It is difficult to give a history of how my contact phone numbers ended up without the +1 as I have used many versions of Outlook and many third party CRM's in the past. I am currently using Office 2007 with Outlook and have about 2,000 contacts with phone, fax and cell numbers for each. About .05% of these are local calls so every time I make a call from my cell, I have to wait for the message that says, "please dial a ! before your number.....". Is there a way to edit the phone, fax and cell phone field for all contacts at the same time? If I recall correctly, ACT had a "global edit" command that made this type of batch editing very easy. Although, I also seem to remember finding a way to edit the name or address of a group of contacts in Outlook at the same time but there were at least ten times as many steps to accomplish the same thing. |
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How do I add +1 to all my contact numbers?
So you are saying that if I go in through Control Panel and edit my dialing
rules, it will automatically place a +1 in front of all my phone, fax and cell numbers? Or is this something that needs to be done before you start populating the contacts database? Thank you. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: The problem is not the format of your phone numbers. It is with your dialing rules. Not an Outlook issue. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Slider76" wrote in message ... I have seen posts where people want to remove the +1 in the phone number but not add it. It is difficult to give a history of how my contact phone numbers ended up without the +1 as I have used many versions of Outlook and many third party CRM's in the past. I am currently using Office 2007 with Outlook and have about 2,000 contacts with phone, fax and cell numbers for each. About .05% of these are local calls so every time I make a call from my cell, I have to wait for the message that says, "please dial a ! before your number.....". Is there a way to edit the phone, fax and cell phone field for all contacts at the same time? If I recall correctly, ACT had a "global edit" command that made this type of batch editing very easy. Although, I also seem to remember finding a way to edit the name or address of a group of contacts in Outlook at the same time but there were at least ten times as many steps to accomplish the same thing. |
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How do I add +1 to all my contact numbers?
No. I'm saying that the phone number format in Outlook is not the problem
and you have no need to change it. International (or canonical) format is the preferred way to store phone numbers because it is the universal standard. That's why Outlook uses it. If your dialing software cannot dial your numbers correctly, it has nothing to do with Outlook. Outlook does participate in that process. If you are using the Windows dialer, your problem is that you don't have your operating system's dialing rules set correctly. If you are using some other dialing software, the problem is with its configuration. Outlook does not dial your numbers and we have no way of knowing which dialer you are using. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Slider76" wrote in message ... So you are saying that if I go in through Control Panel and edit my dialing rules, it will automatically place a +1 in front of all my phone, fax and cell numbers? Or is this something that needs to be done before you start populating the contacts database? Thank you. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: The problem is not the format of your phone numbers. It is with your dialing rules. Not an Outlook issue. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Slider76" wrote in message ... I have seen posts where people want to remove the +1 in the phone number but not add it. It is difficult to give a history of how my contact phone numbers ended up without the +1 as I have used many versions of Outlook and many third party CRM's in the past. I am currently using Office 2007 with Outlook and have about 2,000 contacts with phone, fax and cell numbers for each. About .05% of these are local calls so every time I make a call from my cell, I have to wait for the message that says, "please dial a ! before your number.....". Is there a way to edit the phone, fax and cell phone field for all contacts at the same time? If I recall correctly, ACT had a "global edit" command that made this type of batch editing very easy. Although, I also seem to remember finding a way to edit the name or address of a group of contacts in Outlook at the same time but there were at least ten times as many steps to accomplish the same thing. |
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How do I add +1 to all my contact numbers?
Well, I use and sync both a Windows Mobile phone and the iPhone. I would
never dial a number from my computer so that doesn't matter to me. Personally, I don't care how Outlook displays the phone number, I just want my synced cell phones to dial it as long distance when I am out of my local dialing area. Now since my last post, I discovered something interesting. If I double-click on a contact name and open the individual contact window, then left-click on the Business Phone # button (or Fax or Mobile), another box pops up entitled Check Phone Number (similar to the address one). Then, if I click on OK, the box closes and there is now a +1 beside the phone number (which wasn't there before). The only problem with this method is that I don't want to do this over 4,000 times more to cover all my contacts. There has to be an easier way. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: No. I'm saying that the phone number format in Outlook is not the problem and you have no need to change it. International (or canonical) format is the preferred way to store phone numbers because it is the universal standard. That's why Outlook uses it. If your dialing software cannot dial your numbers correctly, it has nothing to do with Outlook. Outlook does participate in that process. If you are using the Windows dialer, your problem is that you don't have your operating system's dialing rules set correctly. If you are using some other dialing software, the problem is with its configuration. Outlook does not dial your numbers and we have no way of knowing which dialer you are using. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Slider76" wrote in message ... So you are saying that if I go in through Control Panel and edit my dialing rules, it will automatically place a +1 in front of all my phone, fax and cell numbers? Or is this something that needs to be done before you start populating the contacts database? Thank you. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: The problem is not the format of your phone numbers. It is with your dialing rules. Not an Outlook issue. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Slider76" wrote in message ... I have seen posts where people want to remove the +1 in the phone number but not add it. It is difficult to give a history of how my contact phone numbers ended up without the +1 as I have used many versions of Outlook and many third party CRM's in the past. I am currently using Office 2007 with Outlook and have about 2,000 contacts with phone, fax and cell numbers for each. About .05% of these are local calls so every time I make a call from my cell, I have to wait for the message that says, "please dial a ! before your number.....". Is there a way to edit the phone, fax and cell phone field for all contacts at the same time? If I recall correctly, ACT had a "global edit" command that made this type of batch editing very easy. Although, I also seem to remember finding a way to edit the name or address of a group of contacts in Outlook at the same time but there were at least ten times as many steps to accomplish the same thing. |
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How do I add +1 to all my contact numbers?
You've lost me.
Explain: 1. Do you want the country code in your Outlook phone number fields or not? You've now said it both ways. 2. Why do you think that how your iPhone dials is in any way an Outlook issue? It is an iPhone issue. Changing the format of existing phone numbers in Outlook would require running code. Assuming you are convinced you need to do so, I would ask in the programming group. Ken Slovak can write code like that in his sleep. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Slider76" wrote in message ... Well, I use and sync both a Windows Mobile phone and the iPhone. I would never dial a number from my computer so that doesn't matter to me. Personally, I don't care how Outlook displays the phone number, I just want my synced cell phones to dial it as long distance when I am out of my local dialing area. Now since my last post, I discovered something interesting. If I double-click on a contact name and open the individual contact window, then left-click on the Business Phone # button (or Fax or Mobile), another box pops up entitled Check Phone Number (similar to the address one). Then, if I click on OK, the box closes and there is now a +1 beside the phone number (which wasn't there before). The only problem with this method is that I don't want to do this over 4,000 times more to cover all my contacts. There has to be an easier way. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: No. I'm saying that the phone number format in Outlook is not the problem and you have no need to change it. International (or canonical) format is the preferred way to store phone numbers because it is the universal standard. That's why Outlook uses it. If your dialing software cannot dial your numbers correctly, it has nothing to do with Outlook. Outlook does participate in that process. If you are using the Windows dialer, your problem is that you don't have your operating system's dialing rules set correctly. If you are using some other dialing software, the problem is with its configuration. Outlook does not dial your numbers and we have no way of knowing which dialer you are using. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Slider76" wrote in message ... So you are saying that if I go in through Control Panel and edit my dialing rules, it will automatically place a +1 in front of all my phone, fax and cell numbers? Or is this something that needs to be done before you start populating the contacts database? Thank you. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: The problem is not the format of your phone numbers. It is with your dialing rules. Not an Outlook issue. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Slider76" wrote in message ... I have seen posts where people want to remove the +1 in the phone number but not add it. It is difficult to give a history of how my contact phone numbers ended up without the +1 as I have used many versions of Outlook and many third party CRM's in the past. I am currently using Office 2007 with Outlook and have about 2,000 contacts with phone, fax and cell numbers for each. About .05% of these are local calls so every time I make a call from my cell, I have to wait for the message that says, "please dial a ! before your number.....". Is there a way to edit the phone, fax and cell phone field for all contacts at the same time? If I recall correctly, ACT had a "global edit" command that made this type of batch editing very easy. Although, I also seem to remember finding a way to edit the name or address of a group of contacts in Outlook at the same time but there were at least ten times as many steps to accomplish the same thing. |
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