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I just migrated all my Nokia 6230i contacts into Outlook after much difficulty.
Nokia has a general phone number field and this does not get mapped to Outlook contact fields automatically as a result all my Outlook contacts had only names and no phone numbers. Then I found a tool nokisms and was able to extract all my Nokia 6230i contacts to a excel file and then import into outlook, a lot of work to simply copy contacts.

Now that my contacts are finally in Outlook I find that outlook has reformatted the phone numbers by best guess. Outlook identified part of a number as either country code or area code and displayed that in parenthesis, even though that was part of the original number
example:
Number in Nokia: 6203427374
Number as displayed in Outlook: (620)3427374
on the other hand some numbers are displayed the way I want
Number in Nokia: 16203427374
Number as displayed in Outlook: 16203427374

My question is how can I change the default view of numbers in outlook, so that I can remove the parenthesis and 'assumed' area codes and still retain the orginal number as displayed in my Nokia.

Further I want to change the default contact name file as format from "lastname, first name" to "First Name, last Name". Since I want the new list on my HTC Kaiser to appear by First name, last name when I sync outlook.

Thanks in advance for your help..