How can I enter phone numbers without setting up a connection?

[Lane2005]

Everytime I enter a phone number for my contacts, the wizard pops up and say
that I have to establish a conncetion and when I try and cancel that or say
no, Outlook will not respond and I have to shut it down.

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Is it trying to connect to the Internet or just have you setup your modem
properties (Outlook uses some of the TAPI properties when setting up things
in contacts)

 

[Lane2005]

My internet connection comes and goes here but it is not trying to connect.
It asks me questions like the area code I am in now, if I have to dial a
number to access outside line, which I don't, and it asks if we use pulse or
tone dial here. When I hit cancel, it says that it needs telephone
information about the location from which i am dialing.

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

If you go all the way through the dialog does it come up again?

 

[Lane2005]

I have not tried. Like I said our internet comes and goes and I don't want
it to go away completly. I am not sure what to enter in the fields or
anything like that.

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

What fields don't you know about? The area code should be easy.

 

[Lane2005]

It asked me for a specific carrier code and what the number was to access the
outside line. All I did was enter the area code and it seems to be working.
Do you think i will have any problems with it?

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Nope, I doubt you'll have problems.

 

[Lane2005]

Thnk you very much, it works great. Do you know about colors of holidays in
the calendar? I want to be able to bold, or use another color, of the date
navigator calendar. As it is right now, the only dates that are bold are the
ones I have appts. scheduled for. Is there any way to have the holidays show
up in bold or a different color?

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Set the holiday as "Busy" time to get them bolded.

 

[Brian Tillman]

It asked me for a specific carrier code and what the number was to
access the outside line.

Many businesses have switchboards or PBXs that require a person to dial a
digit (like "9") in order to obtain an outside line. Home users rarely need
this, so enter nothing. If you have a carrier code (like 1010-220 for long
distance), enter it. If you just dial a "1" for long distance, just leave
it empty.