Defining Calling Locations

A location is information that Dialing Properties uses to analyze telephone numbers in international format, and to determine the correct sequence of numbers to be dialed. It need not correspond to a particular geographic location, but it usually does. For example, a location could specify the procedures needed to dial calls from your office, or from a room in a hotel. You can name locations anything you choose to help you remember and select them later. Dialing Properties allows you to add new locations, edit existing locations, and remove locations you no longer need.

To define a location in Dialing Properties

1. Run Phone Dialer, click the Tools menu, and then click Dialing Properties.

   

2. In the My Locations properties, type information about where you are calling from, including the following:
   • Name of your location (for example, home or office)
   • Area code
   • Name of country
   • Access number required to make a local or long-distance call
   • Whether your phone has call waiting and whether it should be disabled
   • Whether your phone uses pulse or tone dialing
   • Whether you use a calling card to make calls

     If you want to change calling card information, click the Change button. For more information about calling cards, see "Defining Calling Card Rules" later in this chapter.