This tab contains all of the options needed to control the way phone numbers are formatted when they are in your own country. All numbers from countries other than your own are always displayed, dialed, and stored with a plus sign and the country code appended. The available options are as follows:

Home Country Code: This is the country code of your home country. It is this code that is assumed whenever a number is encountered that does not begin with a country code. This is especially important for North American users who, by-and-large, have no concept for a country code and think that the 1 they dial in front of 10-digit phone numbers is just the "long distance dialing digit" (or something like that). In Canada and the Unite States it is common practice to dial numbers that include the "1" county code without the plus sign in front of it. You enter your country code here WITHOUT the plus sign.

Note that once you have changed the country code you will be barred from making any changes to the fields in the Area Tab. This lockout is enforced to ensure that you don't do serious damage to the format of your phone numbers when the database is updated.

Whenever this field is changed you'll be asked if you want to update affected phone numbers. It is strongly recommended that you agree to this, even though it can take a substantial amount of time to make the necessary alterations. Changing from one country to another requires that all phone numbers presently stored in the phone are updated to include the old country code. You can elect to say no IF you are making the initial change (after installation of ContactsEx), or you have made a habit of always storing numbers with the country code.

Display Home Code: This option tells ContactsEx if you want your country code appended to displayed numbers in your country. If you disable this option, then all phone numbers in your country will be displayed without the plus sign or the country code at the beginning. Again, this is especially important in North America, where numbers are routinely displayed without +1 in front of them.

Dial Home Code: This options tells ContactsEx to include the plus sign and country code for all outgoing numbers in your own country. This is largely a function of your network. Some networks may allow calls to be made without a country code, while others may not.

Store Home Code: This options tells ContactsEx whether it should include the plus sign and country code when storing numbers in your own country. This will determine the way in which the numbers appear if displayed using any of Nokia's native phonebook-handling programs or features.

Whenever this field is changed you'll be asked if you want to update affected phone numbers. It isn't necessary to say yes at this point, but going ahead with the scan ensures that all of the existing numbers (in your country code) are updated to reflect your new storage preference.

Raw Threshold: This refers to the minimum number of digits a phone number must have to be treated as a raw number. By default the value is 5, because many service providers use 5-digits or less for special services, such as 611, 411, 911, 999, etc. When a phone number has the Raw Threshold number of digits (or less) it isn't processed in any way and is displayed as-is in all situations.