Change existing phone numbers from xxx-xxx-xxxx to (xxx) xxx-xxxx format?

[Robert Stanley]

Hello. I'm a former long time Palm user who recently switched to Windows
Mobile and Outlook. All of my contact phone numbers were in the xxx-xxx-xxxx
format, and they stayed that way when I imported into Outlook, and now
through Pocket Outlook.

All the new numbers I enter are in the (xxx) xxx-xxxx format.

Is there a way (short of manually re-doing all) of changing ALL the phone
numbers in my contact list to the parenthetical format?

I don't have a strong preference for one or the other, but do like
consistency, and if Outlook is doing new ones that way, I'd ideally like to
make the old ones that way too.

Thanks.

Rob

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

open each contact and click the phone # button... personally, I'd learn to
love inconsistency unless there are few numbers that need fixing.

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[Robert Stanley]

If that's the easiest fix, maybe inconsistency isn't so bad after all.

Thanks.

open each contact and click the phone # button... personally, I'd learn to
love inconsistency unless there are few numbers that need fixing.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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Hello. I'm a former long time Palm user who recently switched to Windows
Mobile and Outlook. All of my contact phone numbers were in the
xxx-xxx-xxxx format, and they stayed that way when I imported into
Outlook, and now through Pocket Outlook.

All the new numbers I enter are in the (xxx) xxx-xxxx format.

Is there a way (short of manually re-doing all) of changing ALL the phone
numbers in my contact list to the parenthetical format?

I don't have a strong preference for one or the other, but do like
consistency, and if Outlook is doing new ones that way, I'd ideally like
to make the old ones that way too.

Thanks.

Rob

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

If that's the easiest fix, maybe inconsistency isn't so bad after all.

There are tools that can do the job as well. Here's some VB code that might
help:
http://www.slovaktech.com/phonechanger.htm

 

[Robert Stanley]

Thanks for the tip. It looks like this requires some use of VB, which is I
think is probably above my computer pay grade.

I may just have to resign my compulsive stuff to inconsistency!