When I add phone numbers in address book it usually keeps the hyphens. But if I add a number with an extension, such as 716-555-1212 ext 72, it changes it to "7165551212ext76". which is much harder to read.
Is there a way to keep the hyphens in when I have a phone number with an extension???
Thanks!
DanK
Type them in, the presence of additional text at the end stops the auto format from working.
Of course I tried typing them in, it then "auto formated" the phone number to eliminate the hyphens and spaces I had put in (as per my original post).
I just typed this number in as you describe, no problems at all.
Forget that, I entered the number in the e-mail field, when entered in the phone field I get the same result as you do ...
You could edit the card template and add a custom phone field to contain the extension (there is no specific extension field but custom works)
Glad it's not just me... (which I thought before you edited your post!)
However your post gave me the idea of putting the extended phone number in a different field. I'll put it in the notes.
That works just as well as making a custom field. 🙂
This is what fixed it for me: I changed preferences to UK, hyphens were still missing, then changed back to United States and they magically reappeared. (my whole address book was imported from my old address book when I got a new mac). BUT - it still only show parens (xxx) for area code. Not my preferred choice, but at least it's not a solid line of #s now. Also, it will only show solid #s if you have text after a #. So if I wanted to tell myself "Joe's sister's" I'd just make that the custom field name. Other option is to put that stuff in the notes area. Thanks, Apple, for Nazi-fying the process. We have to do it YOUR way, don't we?
Message was edited by: DTinHPP for typos
Thanks been trying to fix the no hyphen in the numbers thing for a while, simple cannot read it that way. The UK choice in preferences did the trick!
No hyphens in Address Book phone numbers
