Auto Format Phone Numbers Based on Your Location or Country Code
When you edit your contacts’ phone numbers, these will automatically be formatted for your country (set in your preferences) or according to the country code of the phone number.
Your phone number locale can be set in the preferences dialog.
- On the top-right. click on the Gear icon - Personal Settings.
- Select the Locale and Save.
| When you edit an address book entry phone number without a country code; the phone number will be automatically formatted to comply with the formatting of your locale. |
For example; you have set your locale to the United States and entered a phone number. When you click out of the field; the phone number will be automatically formatted as follows:
| If you are entering a number with a country code; type “+” directly before the country code to ensure it is formatted correctly. This works with international numbers too. |
Turn Off Automatic Phone Format
If you don’t want to apply the automatic phone format; you can turn it off.
- Go to Administration - Administrator - System Options.
- Modify Options and Uncheck “Automatically format phone numbers to my locale”.
- Click Save.