Question

Is there a way in Microsfot Excel to force entering in a column properly formatted phone numbers with the international code?

I mean phone number with the format:

*[phone]

[phone]

0044 123123132*

Answer 1

Way 1

There, go into excel, right click on a cell, or range of cells, or even the entire column you wish to force format and click on format cells, once you are there you will see this below:

Once there, click on the Number tab if it isn’t selected already, and click as shown as the Custom category and type in the Type: the format as shown above +## ####### ####.

This will allow you to do what you want. I hope this helps.

Way 2

Another way to do it is to use conditional formatting. I linked to a worksheet below that has the conditional formatting. I have made it so a cell is where you type in US, UK, Other and the format changes. Again, it may not be your perfect answer, but it is one of many ways to do it…

http://www.kaboomlabs.com/excel/examples/CF.xlsx