# Automatic Phone Number Formatting

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/automatic-phone-number-formatting/3640>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Tags:** calling, object\
**Created:** [October 20, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/automatic-phone-number-formatting/3640 "2017-10-20T19:10:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![SBradt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@SBradt](https://community.hubspot.com/u/SBradt)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2023, 2:53pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/automatic-phone-number-formatting/3640/152 "2023-04-15T14:53:04Z")

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Agreed wholeheartedly. My main issue comes into play with the inconsistency of auto-formatting when entering contact information. Sometimes it formats, sometimes not and when it doesn’t, why do I have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the country list to find the US, which should be my default.

Also, on the Outlook sales plug-in, when you view contact in the sidebar, it doesn’t show any separators in the phone numbers, which is a pet peeve of mine, because it makes them extremely hard to read and extremely easy to misread.

e.g.

 ![SBradt_1-1681570347156.png](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/c/9c953e609075b30518a034e750b03b7fd6ae3fa4.png)

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