address book phone number question

[webgodjj]

I have been playing around with my new laptop, bluetooth, and my sony/ericsson phone. It is pretty sweet to sync these babies up!

However, no where is there an option in the address book to add a phone number extension ie.. 608-987-9867 X34. Where do people store this information? If you put it in the phone number field in the address book as above, it transfers to the phone that way. Should I be putting this in the notes?

[albloom]

Two choices I can think of, both using Address
Book Prefs/Phone:

1. Set up a custom template
2. Turn off auto formatting

[perfessor101]

In AddressBook > Preferences > Phone you can setup custom templates. Where it says custom click on Formats and a list of default formats will appear.

Click on the plus sign at the bottom and then enter the format you want. You must have a template that matches the exact number of characters you will be entering so for example I added the following to the templates for the basic format I prefer:

(###) ###-#### #
(###) ###-#### ##
(###) ###-#### ###
(###) ###-#### ####

This handles one, two, three, and four digit extension numbers. I have tried it and it works. Thanks for giving me the idea to try this out. I can use it.