Some Outlook features disabled - how to re-enable?

[kiernonr]

Recently, two features in Outlook 2003 SP2 have stopped working:
* Auto-formatting of phone numbers - Now phone numbers will remain in
whatever format I enter them rather than getting auto-formatted.
* Drag-and-drop of appointments - I can no longer drag appointments in
the calendar to another time or day.

Does anybody know how to re-enable these features? Thanks.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

1. Check your phone and modem settings in control panel and ensure they are set to the correct parameters.

2. What happens when you try? Any error message(s)?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| Recently, two features in Outlook 2003 SP2 have stopped working:
| * Auto-formatting of phone numbers - Now phone numbers will remain in
| whatever format I enter them rather than getting auto-formatted.
| * Drag-and-drop of appointments - I can no longer drag appointments in
| the calendar to another time or day.
|
| Does anybody know how to re-enable these features? Thanks.

 

[kiernonr]

1. Check your phone and modem settings in control panel and ensure they are set to the correct parameters.

2. What happens when you try? Any error message(s)?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| Recently, two features in Outlook 2003 SP2 have stopped working:
| * Auto-formatting of phone numbers - Now phone numbers will remain in
| whatever format I enter them rather than getting auto-formatted.
| * Drag-and-drop of appointments - I can no longer drag appointments in
| the calendar to another time or day.
|
| Does anybody know how to re-enable these features? Thanks.

It looks like the drag-drop problem has gone away after a reboot. Not
sure what caused the problem in the first place. However, the phone
number formatting is still broken and has been for a few weeks now. By
itself it wasn't that annoying, but combined with broken drag-drop -
well I just wasn't going to stand for that! Anyways, I did check the
phone and modem settings and they appear to be correct. I even sent a
test fax to make sure my modem was working and properly set up, and it
looks like it is. And I get no errors when entering phone numbers -
they just don't auto-format and are stored as I type them.