"Michael" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Harold Fuchs wrote:
On 4 August 2010 01:37, Wade Smart <[email protected]> wrote:
Im not sure what to call it but, I would like to be able to enter say a
telephone number into a cell like this xxxyyyzzzz and it be autoformated
to
xxx-yyy-zzzz.
Wade
This may be of no relevance to you at all, in which case apologies. The
format you specify is virtually useless outside North America. If you
plan
to include any non NA numbers you will require completely different
formats
which, certainly for Europe, vary from country to country and even from
city
to city. In addition, certainly in the UK, landline numbers have a
different
format from mobile (cell) phone numbers.
Which is exactly why he should use it! The number goes in as xxxxxxxxxx -
it is only /displayed /as (xxx) xxx-xxxx. It was (maybe still is?)
called masking in the Microsoft Office suite.
Michael
Huh? If he were dealing with e.g. European numbers (as well as US ones) then
that format would be entirely inappropriate. Which is why I brought up the
subject.
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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