Answers.Body: <p>Another normalization tool specifically for phone numbers. Per the readme, it is an administrator tool, not a real time validator.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://github.com/JohnFF/Phone-Number-Validator" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/JohnFF/Phone-Number-Validator</a></p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>In short - you can't.  Phone numbers are entered as free entry text.  That's different from addresses, where the format is about which order different fields fall in; phone numbers are only one field.  Dates aren't stored as freeform text; they're stored in a specialized "date" field to handle this.</p>
  
  <p>That said, there's an extension called <a href="https://github.com/cividesk/com.cividesk.normalize" rel="nofollow">CiviDesk Normalize</a>, and one of its functions is to store the phone numbers in a uniform format.  However, you don't get to choose the format (except "National" or "International" style).  </p>
  
  <p>From the code: </p>
  
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    <p>INTERNATIONAL and NATIONAL formats are consistent with
    the definition in ITU-T Recommendation E123.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>If you have access to a developer who knows PHP, they can probably edit the format with a line or two of code - but I suspect it's more important that the phone numbers be uniform than the actual formatting!</p>
  
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Body: <p>Where do I set a phone number format (like date or address options at Administer/Localization)? Thank you.  I'm on rev 4.6.6</p>
  
Tags: <contacts><localisation>
Title: How do I configure a phone number format?
ThreadText: # How do I configure a phone number format?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-12-24)
  
  Where do I set a phone number format (like date or address options at Administer/Localization)? Thank you. I'm on rev 4.6.6
  
  **Tags:** contacts, localisation
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2015-12-24. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  In short - you can't. Phone numbers are entered as free entry text. That's different from addresses, where the format is about which order different fields fall in; phone numbers are only one field. Dates aren't stored as freeform text; they're stored in a specialized "date" field to handle this.
  
  That said, there's an extension called [CiviDesk Normalize](https://github.com/cividesk/com.cividesk.normalize), and one of its functions is to store the phone numbers in a uniform format. However, you don't get to choose the format (except "National" or "International" style).
  
  From the code:
  
  > INTERNATIONAL and NATIONAL formats are consistent with
  > the definition in ITU-T Recommendation E123.
  
  If you have access to a developer who knows PHP, they can probably edit the format with a line or two of code - but I suspect it's more important that the phone numbers be uniform than the actual formatting!
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-12-29. Score: 3
  
  Another normalization tool specifically for phone numbers. Per the readme, it is an administrator tool, not a real time validator.
  
  <https://github.com/JohnFF/Phone-Number-Validator>
  
  
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