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  • Blog Post: Outlook 2010 beta and E.164 number format updater

    ...showing someone how to use my old “ Contacts updater ” application to make all their Outlook contact phone numbers be E.164 compliant. (see blogs passim. eg here , here , or here .) Now the little app I reference is an Outlook custom form, meaning...
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  • Blog Post: Bulk update Outlook Contacts' phone numbers to be E.164 compliant

    ...quick & dirty tool I put together for Outlook to be able to update all the phone numbers of contacts to make them E.164 compliant. It relates back to a post a while back around the challenges of formatting numbers 'correctly', particularly...
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  • Blog Post: How to handle URLs with spaces in Outlook, Word etc

    ...within OCS, where they'll be copying & pasting phone numbers around. Now if the number is nicely formatted (and E.164 compliant ...) then it won't be problem, but the nearer number formatting gets to being easily machine-readable...
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  • Blog Post: The Campaign for Real Pedantry, erm, I mean numbers

    ...to write this number is +44 118 909 nnnn, or for the truly pedantic, +44118909nnnn. Maybe you wouldn't publish an E.164 formatted number (as the scheme is called) as your primary customer services number, and it doesn't make sense to...
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  • Blog Post: Tip o' the Week #70 - Windows Phone 7 usage abroad

    ...technique discussed way back in previous posts ( here and here ) to sort out the formatting of contacts’ phone numbers (the E.164 format – such as +44 118 etc – again, something I’ve dealt with before ). Now, Windows Phone 7 has some built-in...
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