+1 on phone number sync disable?

[tomfisk]

Is there a way to mask the +1 for US numbers from being transferred to the phone?

[FJ]

I don't understand your request. Pleas explain it better

[tomfisk]

In the outlook contact, the phone number is stored as +1 507 555-1212. I would only like to send 507 555-1212 to the phone, stripping off the +1.

[FJ]

Sorry - this is not possible. Besides this i see no sense for such an option.

[tomfisk]

OK...the reason for my asking is that my w760 recognizes an incoming phone number and displays the name of the person when it is on the phone with +1 507 555-1212. However, it doesn't display the picture of the person on the incoming call. If the phone number is stored on the phone as 507 555-1212, then it will display both the name and picture of the person calling. Yes, it is probably a bug in the SE incoming call display, but if there was an easy way to not put the +1 on the phone then there would be a work around for the phone problem.

[FJ]

There is a workaround, but it will be not optimal if you sync often with Outlook.

- Turn of the sync with outlook
- select all contacts, choose rightclick->Format...
- there you can remove the countrycode in one swap for all numbers.

by the way: Normally in the most country a zero is added infront if its a national number (0507....) - isn't it the same in USA ?

[tomfisk]

I don't believe it is the same in the US. My historical understanding is that you added 1 to dial "long distance", which was any number that was outside of your local service area which may have included numbers that were even in your local area code. So, if I dialed a number that was in my local service area, I just dialed the 7 digit number (555-1212). Now if I wanted to call a number that was outside of my local service area, I would dial 1 507 999-1212...long distance. So the country code for the U.S. became +1...and then the phone companies decided to standardize the rest of the country codes. Convoluted, but it meant that millions of U.S. customers didn't have to learn a new system.

Maybe someone else would have a better explanation?

[tomfisk]

Oh...another thing, putting a "0" in front of the phone number (as in 0507 555-1212) means that you want to call the number "operator assisted"...person-to-person, collect, etc...although you would be hard pressed to actually talk to an operator!

[FJ]

OK, i will remove the automatic 0-adding on national numbers for USA