Changing Contacts telephone number format

Hi all. I bought an iphone 6 in USA and I am from Argentina. In the apple store (USA) the product was activated.
Do you know how can I change the Contacts' phone numbers' format so as to avoid the use of brackets () ?
I already selected the propper language for me (spanish) and the Region (Argentina) but the formats remain unchanged.
I still haven't placed a SIM into the iphone because I have to ask the carrier for a Nano-SIM which I do not have at the moment. May this be the problem? When I insert the new SIM I will have the right formats?
Thanxs!
Juan

I've found another PC with XP and Outlook 2007, but I still can't find any service called "Windows Dialing". But I tried it anyway. Guess what I got: in this computer, a normal local telephone format isn't changed. But when the number is in long distance format, ie +XX YYYYYYY, Outlook 2007 stupidly removes the '+' sign in front of it!
I then tried in my first PC to see what would happen to international telephone number format.... it's OK, the '+' sign isn't deleted.
What a f**k! What's this ____ called Outlook 2007 which tries to reformat things it can't understand??
I have exactly the same problem - I am in the UK and have a pile of UK numbers stored in international format (which most cell phones recognise and some generate automatically from incoming calls). So the number would be entered as +44 1234 56789. Outlook strips off the + and, because I sync with my pda, the numbers get exported to it in a broken state :-(
In the UK, we don't drop leading digits - to dial a number I either dial 01234 56789 or +44 1234 56789. We don't really use local numbers a lot in the UK - it doesn't make any difference within a local area if I dial the full code, just the local number or the international version. So there is no need for Outlook to do anything.
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