Stop Outlook 2007 Vista from adding + to phone numbers?

So after much searching across the intertubes, I've managed to find a lot of
people who say "who cares?" about Outlook adding the +1 to phone numbers.
While I admit that my Outlook-synced phone can dial them just fine, I have
programs that don't deal well with the +. I didn't write them, so it's not
like I can just up and fix them, ergo, the simply solution should be to get
Outlook to stop adding little pluses everywhere.

As the subject says, I'm trying to get this done in Outlook 2007 on Vista.

Outlook only does this if you've told it to in its dialing options.
Turn off that option in Contacts Actions Call Contact New Call...
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Amazingant" wrote in message
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So after much searching across the intertubes, I've managed to find a lot
of
people who say "who cares?" about Outlook adding the +1 to phone numbers.
While I admit that my Outlook-synced phone can dial them just fine, I have
programs that don't deal well with the +. I didn't write them, so it's not
like I can just up and fix them, ergo, the simply solution should be to
get
Outlook to stop adding little pluses everywhere.

As the subject says, I'm trying to get this done in Outlook 2007 on Vista.

Are you clicking the phone button or number? (Business..., Home.... etc
beside the number field) The +1 should only be added if you click the
buttons or double click on the number.

See http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2009/20090410.htm for a way to
avoid formatting - but again, you can't open the Check Phone Number dialog.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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"Amazingant" wrote in message
...
So after much searching across the intertubes, I've managed to find a lot
of
people who say "who cares?" about Outlook adding the +1 to phone numbers.
While I admit that my Outlook-synced phone can dial them just fine, I have
programs that don't deal well with the +. I didn't write them, so it's not
like I can just up and fix them, ergo, the simply solution should be to
get
Outlook to stop adding little pluses everywhere.

As the subject says, I'm trying to get this done in Outlook 2007 on Vista.