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Q: How do you set up which phone number format one prefers in Contacts?

Where do you set up the phone number format preference for contacts?

iMac (21.5-inch Late 2009), OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)

Posted on Nov 17, 2015 9:24 AM

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Q: How do you set up which phone number format one prefers in Contacts?

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  • by Mobile Blues,Helpful

    Mobile Blues Mobile Blues Nov 17, 2015 2:27 PM in response to gerti45
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    Nov 17, 2015 2:27 PM in response to gerti45

    Can you be more specific?

    Telephone numbers follow a specific international format ( Country Code-Area Code-District/State/Area-Phone Number) you can't change this format because you would always get a dial format error.

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    gerti45 gerti45 Nov 17, 2015 2:40 PM in response to Mobile Blues
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    Nov 17, 2015 2:40 PM in response to Mobile Blues

    Thank you very much for your response. I just realized that my question is misleading. It doesn't concert an iPod, iPad or iPhone. I have an iMac and a MacBook Pro and would like to have the telephone number format set to, e.g., (XXX) XXX-XXX. Right now, they are all scrunched together like this XXXXXXXXXX. I used to be able to set up the format in Preferences in MobileMe directly. Doesn't iCloud have that option anymore? Can you set the parameters only when you first set up the computer? My computer is set to language English and region USA. I set my computer to German occasionally because I am a German translator. But that never seemed to have made any difference in the past. Again, thank you for your help.

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    gerti45 gerti45 Dec 5, 2015 2:22 PM in response to Mobile Blues
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    Dec 5, 2015 2:22 PM in response to Mobile Blues

    Thank you for your attention! I figured it out myself.