maybe this http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2009/20090410.htm ?

(I swear I answered this yesterday.)

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"brainstewn" wrote in message
...
I enjoyed how Outlook reformatted my phone number automatically but it
QUIT,
now if I enter a 10 digit phone number with no brackets, no dashed, no
spaces
it stays that way. Why did Outlook stop auto-formatting the phone number.

Darrell

"Yahkitloi" wrote:

When I input numbers in international format in Outlook 2003 Contacts,
brackets are added automatically around the fisrt number or numbers
following
the country code. How do I remove this irritating facility?