When I try to set the country code of a contact's telephone number in Outlook to say +44, Outlook decides to reformat it to just 44 i.e. no +.
When I transfer contacts over to XDA2 using ActiveSync, this bad reformatting goes with it so I then have to update all numbers by placing a '+' in front of them all. This is particularly annoying with mobile numbers as without the country code, XDA2 won't display text messages as from contacts.
Does anyone know how to turn this poxy reformatting off in Outlook?
Thanks
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my contacts are displayed surname then forname. Is there a way to change this
Cheers
You can change it in Outlook and on next synchronisation they will change on your PDA as well.
many thanks!
The contact system is really not upto scratch compared to my Nokia 9210
I've found that some are forename, Surname and some are the other way round with no real logic ???
If outlook uses 'lastname, forename' and you add a contact on the MDA 'John Doe' its added as 'John doe', it should have been 'Doe, John' but it doesn't add it that way :roll:
I have a silly way of doing it, but it works
Add contact as you normally would
Copy to sim
Delete contact from phone
go to sim manager
copy contact from sim to phone
tada! John Doe!
I just got my new Cingular 8215 and love it. I am on the road and the ability to access email is fantastic. However, I have found that I have to scroll through a LOT of Outlook contacts before I make it to my SIM contacts when dialing a number.
I know that I can just start dialing or typing a name (smart dial), but it would really be nice to ONLY see my SIM contacts when scrolling down the contact list when dialing a phone number.
Most of my Outlook contacts are only email address, so it is a waste of space and time for dialing!
Any ideas/suggestion/comments?
Thanks!
-Mike
Hi,
A friend of mine has an 8125 and he can dial directly from Outlook (Calendar, Tasks, Email). Outlook for some reasons interprets numbers as telephone number and underlines it, so he can click on it and dial the number directly. On my 8525 I see this capability in emails, but not in calendar, where I really needed it. Whenever I have a phone number in a calendar appointment or task its not underlined and I have to copy and paste it into the phone application. Very cumbersome.
Is there a setting on the phone that automatically interprets the numbers in the calendar and underlines it for direct dial out capbilities, or is that something that needs to be setup on the Outlook server?
BTW this applies to appointments made on the laptop as well as on the phone.
Thanks for any help.
in the appointment's note: tel:xxx-xxxxxxx
It'll work.
Nope. Doesn't work.
It is strange that all numbers in emails are automatically interpreted as phone numbers and are underlined for direct dial out, but appointments don't.
Is there any way to get the Hermes to recognize phone numbers in say an email? I would love to be able to just click a link in an email to a recognized phone number instead of having to cut and paste into the phone app. Even better would be a way to recognize a phone number on an appointment in a calendar for all of those useless conference calls that I find my self on.
I'm currently running WM6 LVWS 3.30.2.1 on my 8125.
Rick
click and dial
You should be able to click on a phone number in a message or appointment and get an option to dial. I always make sure when I put phone numbers in my appointments to type the 10 digit number ie 555.555.5555
yeah just don't use spaces, it comes down to the formatting of the number
I see that the phone numbers if entered xxx-xxx-xxxx or xxx.xxx.xxxx in an email work when displayed in the pocket Outlook email client. Phone numbers of xxx-xxx-xxxx or xxx.xxx.xxxx in an appointment(subject or body) are not displayed as links. I viewed them in both the default calendar application as well as Pocket Informant 2007 just to see if that could determine if they were phone numbers and neither could.
Can you verify that you see links in appointments? I'm creating them in Outlook on my laptop by the way and using Active Sync to sync them to the phone if that matters.
Rick
Right after I sent that last reply I checked what would happen if I created the appt in Pocket Informant 2007 Calendar and that appt also does not show links for the phone numbers.
Rick
I have a problem. After synchronizing my contacts from Outlook to my SE X1, they don't get recognized anymore. If someone calls me the numbers is shown without spaces however, my outlook synchronized them with a space after the land code (+31 / +32 in my case).
For instance: Person X calls me with the number +31123456789, however in outlook he is shown as +31 123456789; therefore my phone doesn't connect the name to the number resulting in many 'unknown' callers.
How can I solve this problem?
Thank you in advance.