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Selective auto-formatted numbers in Address Book
Authored by: joshums on Jul 27, '04 10:23:06AM
Well despite the easy to make mistakes in maths, this was a really useful tip.

Although to add to the usefulness (and possibly the vague intrigue of anyone curious to the number formatting system, here, in Australia) here's a slight alteration to the hint.

Landline numbers in Australia often have the area code in brackets rather than just separated by a space, eg. (02) 9123 4567 while mobiles are all strung together, eg. 0412 345 678. (Since the area code in the landlines is optional if you're in the same code but you always have to dial 04 for mobiles).

So if you add (##) #### #### as the unspecified ten digit format, then all landline numbers will present the area code in familiar brackets, while mobiles will be without.

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