How to add "1" in front of area code and phone number?

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How to add "1" in front of area code and phone number?

The phone numbers I imported into my iPhone from my Address Book don't have a "1" in front of them. So now, when I'm out of town and want to dial a number from Contacts, an automated message from my carrier tells me the number I'm dialing is long distance and requires a "1" at the beginning. On my old Treo, I could add a "1" in the "Dialing" set-up menu. The system knew enough to ignore it for local calls but enabled it for long distance calls. Is there no way to do this on iPhone? Many thanks.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Jul 28, 2008 8:08 PM

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Answer 1

colt_777

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Jul 28, 2008 8:26 PM in response to Tim Fallis

BRMG, I don't know what you use to sync but I use Outlook and if I need to adjust all of my numbers I just export to excel, and then I can use the extra functionality. I actually had to add a "+61" to all of my numbers, as well as removing the leading "0". I just exported my contacts to excel and used find and relace to adjust them all at once.

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Oct 10, 2008 1:37 AM in response to Tim Fallis

This is one of the many lacking iPhone features that I've taken for granted in other basic cell phones for years. Ironically, the iPhone's weakest part is the phone.

Rogers will put through a call that has been dialed without the "1", but only after listening to a lengthy message that encourages you to program all of your phone numbers with the "1".

Sure, you can prepend a "1" before all phone numbers in your address book, however, that will cause problems if you share your address book with your computer and use an autodialer on your computer, because most land lines won't tolerate the "1" before a local number.

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