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Selective auto-formatted numbers in Address Book
Authored by: encro on Jul 27, '04 01:27:25PM

Well this hint definately highlighted how buggy the custom fomatter part of Address Book really is :-)

I eventually just resorted to editing the com.apple.AddressBook.plist:

I added the following formatters:
<string>###-###</string>
<string>1300 ###-###</string>
<string>####-####</string>
<string>(0#) ####-####</string>
<string>+61 4## ###-###</string>
<string>+61 # ####-####</string>
<string>04## ### ###</string>
<string>+1 ### ###-####</string>
<string>+44 ## ####-####</string>
<string>+354 ###-####</string>



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Selective auto-formatted numbers in Address Book
Authored by: timstringer on Sep 19, '04 02:04:29PM

Thanks for the great tip!

Is there any way to reformat phone numbers that have already been entered in Address Book. For example, I'd like to take all my (xxx) xxx-xxxx format phone numbers and format them to +1 (xxx) xxx-xxxx - this format works better with both my mobile phone and the Skype VOIP software.

Cheers,
Tim



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Selective auto-formatted numbers in Address Book
Authored by: timstringer on Sep 19, '04 02:05:04PM

Thanks for the great tip!

Is there any way to reformat phone numbers that have already been entered in Address Book. For example, I'd like to take all my (xxx) xxx-xxxx format phone numbers and format them to +1 (xxx) xxx-xxxx - this format works better with both my mobile phone and the Skype VOIP software.

Cheers,
Tim



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