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KW
Microsoft needs to provide a separate field for Extension Numbers in outlook.
This way the field would not sync more than 10 numbers to your phone and
potentially cause number formatting problems or cause the phone to send more
than 10 digits from the contact screen to the phone itself causing a "your
call cannot be completed as dialed" message from the carrier due to a number
format that is longer than expected.
Separate extension fields would also be useful for being able to
automatically dial the extension after a pause, or on command with button
press.
Another suggestion - loose the hard coded (xxx) xxx-xxxx formatting. I don't
buy that this is somehow necessarry for other devices to sync. After all, I
can enter a number in just about any format in my Palm including xxxxxxxxxx
or xxx.xxx.xxxx and it gets translated to outlook upon sync with out issue.
Though I note that if I ever look up that number in Outlook and then sync,
Outlook changes the format and then that same format is changed on my palm.
Dialers only care about the numbers - all other items are visual cues for
people. Therefore, the software should be able to have the default number
format customized for PERSONAL preference.
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This way the field would not sync more than 10 numbers to your phone and
potentially cause number formatting problems or cause the phone to send more
than 10 digits from the contact screen to the phone itself causing a "your
call cannot be completed as dialed" message from the carrier due to a number
format that is longer than expected.
Separate extension fields would also be useful for being able to
automatically dial the extension after a pause, or on command with button
press.
Another suggestion - loose the hard coded (xxx) xxx-xxxx formatting. I don't
buy that this is somehow necessarry for other devices to sync. After all, I
can enter a number in just about any format in my Palm including xxxxxxxxxx
or xxx.xxx.xxxx and it gets translated to outlook upon sync with out issue.
Though I note that if I ever look up that number in Outlook and then sync,
Outlook changes the format and then that same format is changed on my palm.
Dialers only care about the numbers - all other items are visual cues for
people. Therefore, the software should be able to have the default number
format customized for PERSONAL preference.
----------------
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/com...2bdd47ef&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.contacts