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Old 05-07-2020, 09:11 AM
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Currently, Outlook reformats contact telephone numbers that I enter as

xxx xxx xxxx
to
(xxx) xxx-xxxx



In an earlier version of Outlook, I was able to prevent the reformatting, and numbers entered previously retain their un-reformatted form. However I can't find any way of preventing newly-entered phone numbers from being reformatted. Is there a way?
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See Phone Number Formatting for Outlook and Smartphones which explains the formatting, which changed after Office 2010.
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Old 05-10-2020, 08:38 AM
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Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, as the reference says under "How to Keep Outlook from Formatting Numbers", "This only works in older versions of Outlook."
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