How about some hyphens?

[digger16309]

In the call history, the caller IDs are listed as a 9-number string with no hyphens.

Example: 2125551212

When I click on a number, I get the dialog box with the number, reference ID and dropdown box to take an action.

If I highlight the number within the dialog box and right-click it I can search Google for the number from Firefox. But it doesn't work so well because phone number searches in Google really only work with hyphens: 212-555-1212.

Any chance of hyphens getting loaded into that dialog box?

Or is there a setting I can change to add them?

Thanks,

Digger

[usa2k]

That would be so great.

Been without hyphens a long time.
I would also like to use letters as alternative too (when they work).
800-GO-FEDEX the combination does wonders!

[uhf]

That would be so great.

+1
I've thought the same thing.

[TimW]

Then Google and/or Firefox have got the formatting wrong as well. The official format for US phone numbers is (nnn) 555-1212, and if we're going to have formatted numbers, could we please have the correct format (sorry, pet peeve).

Using Chrome (the browser shouldn't matter as much as the search engine), I Googled several phone numbers, and all of them came back with the same results regardless of the phone number format that I used. Google even corrected the format when I used a 10-digit (not 9-number) string.

[abward]

-1. I use periods, like most of the rest of world. Please do NOT put in hyphens, or at least make the format selectable/optional.

[digger16309]

Then Google and/or Firefox have got the formatting wrong as well. The official format for US phone numbers is (nnn) 555-1212, and if we're going to have formatted numbers, could we please have the correct format (sorry, pet peeve).

Agreed, either way will work. It's just a pain at the moment to do the search, then manually go into the Google search box and add hyphens, or (nnn) as the case may be.

[digger16309]

-1. I use periods, like most of the rest of world. Please do NOT put in hyphens, or at least make the format selectable/optional.

Periods do not work as well in Google for some numbers.

[MisterEd]

-1. I use periods, like most of the rest of world. Please do NOT put in hyphens, or at least make the format selectable/optional.

Do you also swap the month and year like most of the rest of the world (7/2/10 instead of 2/7/10) or use only the metric system?

I'd settle for "like the USA does it" since that's where we live.

[usa2k]

I'd settle for "like the USA does it" since that's where we live.

The USA way for US Residential seems fair to me.
I beats the way nobody expects.
A style choice where the Time Zone and other preferences are, even better!

[zevin]

I don't know why this wasn't done from the start. I go cross eyed looking at all the numbers.

Hyphens, no periods please - my vote!