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I was able to get rid of the area code in my Outlook 2010 Contacts when using Win XP. Now that I have Win 7 Pro, I can’t get Outlook > Contacts to stop inserting my local area code into the phone numbers. It doesn’t matter for actual phone numbers – I just ignore it when I am calling the person/business. But it DOES matter when I am using the Win Fax driver to send a fax to a local number. Win insists on inserting a 1 in addition to the area code, which works fine for faxes sent outside of my area code, but causes the fax to fail when sending it to local faxes, because for local faxes, the phone company insists on just the phone number itself – it does not accept the 1+area code+fax number for local number. To send a fax to a local number, I have to manually type in the number. A waste of time.

The earlier suggestion (above) that recommends putting a comma in front of the number won’t work either since Win Fax won’t recognize that as a dialable phone number.

I have poked around the Outlook > File > Options and > Advanced – no joy. Ditto poking around the Win 7 Control Panel and my Devices > Modem – no joy there, either.

Anybody got anything that’ll point me in the right direction?