Formatting Telephone Numbers

When I am converting a roster I need to format the telephone numbers. Is there a way that I can format these telephone numbers with as such (xxx) xxx-xxxx.

This seems to be another oversight, and another one which can be quite nicely accommodated by adding "Custom..." to the format-settings for table-cells, and then permitting to format the cell using the already System-established "##"-syntax, as used inside Address Book for example.

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How to Format telephone numbers in Adress Book

I want to format all my telephone numbers to an International format as from the UK. Such as +44 #### ### ###. But try as I will to input this into Address Book Phone Preferences under custom nothing happens. The drop box gives three pre-set format and the custom option ~ I can alter the pre-set numbers but not save them, I can also enter a custom set up but it does not save or implement itself.
Strangely the presets work, but not when altered (I have pressed enter to save!)
Can anyone make some 'sane' suggestions as I need to get all telephone numbers in the same +44 format without having to go through everything by hand.
Here's hoping, thanks guys.
iMac 15, 17 & 20 plus 12 Powerbook. All linked by Airport Mac OS X (10.4.6)
iMac 15, 17 & 20 plus 12 Powerbook. All linked by Airport Mac OS X (10.4.3)

You posted in the OS 9 (pre-year 2000) forum instead of the MacBook Pro forum. To get answers to your question, next time post in the proper forum. See https://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa I'll request that Apple relocate your post.
What OS X version are you running?
 Cheers, Tom

Format telephone numbers

Can I set up templates for phone numbers using OS X Yosemite as follows:
+ XX (XX) XXXX XXXX
+X (XXX) XXX XXXX
At present phone numbers are logged in a haphazard manner

This issue frustrated me as well until I just found out by accident that putting a dot (.) after any number clears the auto formatting and you can use any custom formatting. Means one needs to format all numbers by hand though. but at least its possible to change from the endless line of numbers without spacing, which is so hard to read. Don't know what synching with iOS does, yet.
Maybe this helps someone else.

ASCII (SYMBOLS & CHARACTERS) Conversion to Telephone numbers

I am using oracle Release 9.2.0.7.0 and I am trying to access a database containing telephone numbers and codes, the table contains two columns with the names no and code both are VARCHAR2 column datatype. As you can see below the values in these two columns are ASCII characters and symbols. I tried to save the SQLPLUS query (select no, code from subdata) into a a file using spool command but the Ascii symbols and characters have being changed into some other format I am not familiar with I will show it below. Therefore is there a function that can help me to convert the ascii codes into the telephone numbers without doing any import or export, an embedded SQLPlus function will help me very much.
This is a sample of the current table containing the ASCII codes:
no code
%)öFƒ   cs☺ ☻YO
%)ûe_   cs☺ ☻Y_
%)ö►_   cs☺ ☻Y
%)ö♥▼   cs☺ ☻YÅ
%)ö"_   cs☺ ☻Yƒ
%)ö☻o   cs☺ ☻`
%)ô☺▼   cs☺ ☻`▼
%)öt_   cs☺ ☻`/
%)öto   cs☺ ☻`?
%)æ_   cs☺ ☻a
%)òS▼   cs☺ ☻h_
no code
%)öv   cs☺ ☻pÅ
%)öp?   cs☺ ☻pƒ
%)Æ♠_   cs☺ ☻q
%)öp/   cs☺ ☻q▼
%)öuo   cs☺ ☻q/
%)Æ _   cs☺ ☻q?
%)ö↨O   cs☺ ☻qƒ
%)öu   cs☺ ☻r
%)ÿ☺O   cs☺ ☻r▼
%)öQ_   cs☺ ☻r/
%)öB?   cs☺ ☻r?
24 rows selected.
SQL>
This is the format I got after I saved the query results of the sub_data table into a text file using SPOOL command:
no Code
%)^G\2223?\377\377 cs 5_
%)^G\225^X_\377\377 cs 5\217
%)^G\2238\217\377\377 cs 3/
%)^G\225^Q\217\377\377 cs 6O
%)^G\223^Q^O\377\377 cs 3?
%)^G\223SO\377\377 cs 3o
%)^G\2231^O\377\377 cs 3^?
%)^G\223\225/\377\377 cs 3\217
%)^G\223^W^_\377\377 cs 3\237
Abdel Moalim
Bosaso, Somalia

The two column names are MSISDN and IMSI
MSISDN IMSI
%)VXO   cs☻ ☺sA/
%)sq   cs☻ ☺åo
%)ÖÇ   cs☺ ♥y_
%)ÖÇ_   cs☺ ♥y?
%)ÖÇo   cs☺ ♥yO
%)ÖÇÅ   cs ► y?
%)Öü▼   cs☺ ☻io
%)Öü?   cs☺ ☻iO
%)ÿâO   cs☺ ☻iÅ
%)Öü   cs☺ ♥yo
%)û↕_   cs☺ ☻i
MSISDN IMSI
%)ûÆƒ   cs☺ ☻i
%)ûT▼   cs☺ ☻p▼
%)ûw?   cs☺ ☻po
%)Æ▼   cs☺ ☻p
%)ÿêO   cs☺ ☻hƒ
%)ûR_   cs☺ ♥y/
%)ùFÅ   cs☺ ♥s
%)ÿ1_   cs ► i?
%)ÿü▼   cs☺ ☻p/
%)ùöƒ   cs☺ ☻p
%)ÿ1o   cs☺ ☻hÅ
MSISDN IMSI
%)òE_   cs☺ ☻É
%)ÿ   cs☺ ♥sÅ
%)û0Å   cs ► dƒ
%)Ö♥Å   cs☺ ♥sƒ
%)Öbo   cs☺ ♥t/
%)ÿ    cs☺ ♥t?
%)Ö♠Å   cs☺ ♥tO
%)û%O   cs☺ ♥t_
%)æ?   cs !_
%)Öö   cs☺ ♥to
%)ûV   cs☺ ♥tÅ
MSISDN IMSI
%)òô/   cs☺ ☻cƒ
%)òSÅ   cs☺ ☻d?
%)òSƒ   cs☺ ☻hO
%)òV▼   cs☺ ☻do
%)ò3   cs☺ ☻"ƒ
%)òT▼   cs☺ ☻h
%)ò3o   cs☺ ☻ho
%)ÖG   cs☺ ♥tƒ
%)Ö1?   cs☺ ♥u
%)Ö`_   cs☺ ♥u▼
%)Ö2?   cs☺ ♥u/
MSISDN IMSI
%)ùù/   cs☺ ♥u?
%)Ö►o   cs☺ ♥w?
%)D☺▼   cs☻ ☺Eÿ?
%)ÿY   cs☺ ♥w_
%)ÖDo   cs☺ ♥wO
2469 rows selected.
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Automatic insertion of spaces in telephone numbers in iPhone OS 3.0.1

Hello!
I think there are two annoying behaviors in iPhone OS 3.0.1:
• if you go to contacts, create a new contact and enter a telephone number there will be inserted automatically spaces into the telephone number. One the one hand this behavior can be very practical (for example if iPhone 3.0.1 identify thereby already used formats of telephone numbers), on the other hand this behavior can be very annoying (for example if you want to create a special format for one telephone number). If you synchronize telephone numbers from your iMac to your iPhone, iPhone OS 3.0.1 put also automatically spaces into synchronized numbers.
• there is also missing a hyphen in the number keyboard to insert into the telephone number in iPhone OS 3.0.1.
First I think it would be a very good if there would be a function in iPhone OS 3.1 which deactivates the automatic insertion of spaces, secondly I think there should be a a hyphen in the number keyboard to insert into the telephone number in iPhone OS 3.0.1.
How do you think about my suggestions?
Message was edited by: Roman Patrice Gego

ok after all summer have this toy (BETA )iphone upgrade to 3.0.1 still drop calls so i send it for repair or replace i can write full pages regarding that beta product i need to find tonight to send mail to EU as a customer i need to find my right i pay 600 euro in 10/06/09 and still is not working properly as it must be A PHONE i am professional and i need my phone to work as a tool i wll reply too all that will ask me my phone number exept my e-mail are
[email protected]
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I want to create a formula for telephone numbers in the formula editor

Is there a way to create a formula for telephone numbers in the "custom" editor in the inspector
IE if I enter 2123456789 into a cell it automatically formats it to look like this (212) 345-6789

You can create a new format by opening the Cells Inspector, then selecting "Custom" from the format menu:
You can add the ### fields and click the menu on the left of the field:

Telephone numbers in a excel spread sheet not recognized by Adobe Acrobat DC

Before my upgrade to Adobe Acrobat DC on my iPhone, telephone numbers in a excel spread sheet was recognized by Acrobat Reader as such i.e. You would touch and hold the number, then a 'pop up' would appear that gave the option to 'CALL' or 'SEND A MESSAGE'. This function no longer works in Adobe Acrobat DC, why not?

Hi,
Acrobat DC for iOS uses the Apple iOS SDK to display the preview of non-PDF documents (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
It looks like an Apple bug for failing to auto-detect phone numbers only in Excel spreadsheets.
I opened my Excel (.xlsx and .xls), Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx) documents with phone numbers in Acrobat DC for iOS. The phone numbers in the Word and PowerPoint documents were correctly recognized as such. In the preview, the plain text turns into blue underlined text. When you press and hold over the phone number, you will get the options that you have mentioned.
On the other hand, the phone numbers in the Excel spreadsheet were not recognized in the preview. In Excel, I used Format Cells > Number > Special > Phone Number with United States (English) as language. But it did not fix the problem.
As it turns out, the Apple Mail preview (on iOS 8) has the same problem. You can also email your Excel spreadsheet to yourself and open it in Apple Mail on your iPhone to confirm that it is an Apple bug.
You may want to post a question in the Apple Support
iPhone - Mail, Contacts, Calendars - Apple Support
or use Word documents instead for auto-detection of phone numbers.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

How to express cell format in Numbers?

In Numbers on Mac, I want all positive numbers in cells to display in blue with comma separators and a leading + sign. Example: the value 4135 should appear as +4,135
I want all negative numbers in cells to display in red with comma separators and a leading - sign. Example: the value 2167 should appear as -2,167
I know how to create this in Excel with the custom format [Blue]+#,##0;[Red]-#,##0
When I create a spreadsheet in Excel, then open the spreadsheet in Numbers, this cell format is not recognized by Numbers. Does anyone know how to create this cell format in Numbers? Thx

Hi pomme4moi,
You can get the "+", the "-" and the commas in the custom format menu.
For you colors you need conditional formatting as shown by Wayne.
quinn

How to delete a custom format in Numbers 3

I am one of the poor unfortunates that has upgraded to Numbers 3 BIG mistake!!
However does anyone know how to delete a custom format in Numbers 3?
I'm not sure where the custom format came from in the erlier version of numbers. I guess I must have created it for something, I can't remember what.
It now appaers that when I send a Numbers 3 document via email to an Excel format it adds a weird custom format that turns currency into garbage. Once in Excel simply going to format cells and deleting this odd format cures the problem.
If I could find a way of deleting it in Numbers 3, hopefully the problem will go away.
This is far from the only problem I'm having with Numbers 3. It's begining to look like I'll have to abandon Numbers 3 having had to go to the expense of buying a new iPad because Numbers 3 documents (and presumably Pages Keynote etc) no longer work on the original iPad.

I never promote the method the deletion unless you understand the underlying tables of planning, if you search on the forum you will see posts on the subject just like this one - Delete dimension from planning application
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

Error in Number format with numbers 3.0

Hi.
I have just purchased Apple Numbers 3.0. It's running on a Mac Book Pro Retina on OS X Mavericks
I can't use it at all.
When I enter numbers in the cels it formats the numbers wrong. I'm danish, but run OS X in english with danish region settings.
What happens is that when i for instance write 20 in B3, it autocorrects it to 0020, and then I can't calculate on it.
If i set it to English region it works. But since I'm danish I would expect Apple to respect me using my own language.

Report the bug to Apple with the Numbers > Feedback tool.
Jerry

XIF Adapter : Upload of Business partner(Using LSMW) Telephone Numbers

Hi all
I'am uploading BP data using XIF Adapter and I am using the LSMW-IDOC Method (Basic type:CRMXIF_PARTNER_SAVE_M02)
Here My client came with 4 telephone numbers, can any one please help me how can I uploade these 4 telephone numbers. when I am trying to upload by default it was accepting only the first telephone number and leaving the others
Thanks in advance
Warm regards
bms

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Gregor

ICloud you have the ability to NOT format phone numbers of contacts; this ability is not available on the contacts of iPhone. If I set-up a phone number in iCloud with NO parenthesis, ex. 123- 456-7899, then this format should be available on the iPhone

In iCloud you have the ability to NOT format phone numbers of contacts; this ability is not available on the contacts of iPhone. If I set-up a phone number in iCloud with NO parenthesis, ex. 123- 456-7899, then this format should be available on the iPhone contact.

That is correct is doesn't. Standardized formatting of phone numbers in the iOS app is more important because it supports contact from a variety of locations (gmail, hotmail, etc.). iCloud doesn't (not directly).

HT4623 My contacts are listed by telephone numbers instead of names in my messages since I upgraded to OS8? How can I change it to names?l,

My contacts are listed by telephone numbers instead of names in my messages since I upgraded to OS8? How can I change it to names?l,

Under Settings->Messages->Send & Receive
1) is your Apple ID listed there?
2) Under "You can be reached..." is your phone number appearing at the top of the list and does it have a checkmark next to it?
3) Under "Start New Conversation From" is the checkmark next to your phone number?

Why do my senders of txt messages show up as telephone numbers instead of names?

Why do my senders of txt messages show up as telephone numbers instead of names?

Chances are the senders are not in your contacts.

Mobile number and telephone numbers not displying in lync contacts for other SIP domains.

Hi everyone,
we recently migrated Lync 2010 to 2013, we have 2 SIP boc.bh and scys.gov.bh and local domain boc.local.
lync users for boc.bh not getting telephone numbers & mobile number on lync contact list, same happening for scys.gov.bh lync users they are not able to see any boc.bh lync user telephone number and mobile number on lync list.
but old with lync 2010 all users able to see all numbers in lync list.
recently we changed user UPN suffix for BOC.bh and scys.gov.bh to respective users.
there is no any error massage on lync servers.
manish yadav

Hi Manish!
On the Lync Server 2013 environment you can run the Lync PowerShell command: "Update-CsUserDatabase" after 5 minutes run the command: Update-CsAddressBook
Please after that run: "Invoke-CsManagementStoreReplication" wait for Lync replication with command: "Get-CsManagementStoreReplicationStatus" when Status for each server is appearing as True finally apply the following steps to test with
2 accounts:
Log off of the Lync client and delete the profile from:
%userprofile%\appdata\Local\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Lync
then execute the following command in the command prompt to add the registry that forces the Lync client to immediately download the address book:
reg add HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Lync /v GalDownloadInitialDelay /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
Sign-in to users again to lync client and test between each other.
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