Dialing extensions & Pause character symbol in android contacts

[hyde49314]

Originally Posted by EvilMonkey

I am not sure what you mean by "dialog box in Outlook." What version of Outlook are you using? I'm using 2010 (with Exchange) but the phone numbers aren't separated out into Area Code or Extension...it's just one long block so you can type in whatever you want there. Even allows letters (I assume for those 1-800-SAFE-AUTO type numbers)..

This is what I meant, when you enter the numbers, it automatically adds X between number and extension. So this is out of user's control. We will just have to type the numbers by hand, that means no import of data from other users/etc..

I do not have a good solution for how to edit those contacts in bulk. Are they contacts stored locally (i.e. you entered them manually into Outlook), or are they being pushed there from another system? Perhaps this walkthrough on exporting the contacts will help (maybe you can export it, make the change quickly, and re-import it): [Only registered users can view links. ]

They are stored on corporate exchange server, with ability to edit %90 of them, with %10 being on Exchange Directory, unable to edit.. Sure I also thought about exporting them to csv and mass edit and import back, but that would mean I will lose a lot of data & formatting with CSV since it does not support rich text and I have a lot of notes in contacts.

What should happen IMHO, is the OS's (all of them...iOS, Blackberry, Android, Windows, etc) should recognize the "x" since as you pointed out, it's pretty common across systems, and be smart enough to automatically transpose it to a comma for dialing.

Exactly, that's what I was trying to get to. It should just recognize it, even though they have more features.

Maybe it doesn't do that since as I mentioned earlier you can use numbers like "1-800-I-AM-XTREME" would get screwed up when it switches the X to a comma.

Good point, in my blackberry I can actually dial by writing this to my dialing screen, and it won't confuse it.. I don't even see the option in Android. There is no keyboard, only dialpad.