What are special phone prefixes/suffixes for?
The Long Distance Prefix is dialed before a phone number that is outside your local area code. The Long Distance Suffix is dialed after a phone number that is outside your area code. For example, in the Long Distance Prefix, you might have a 1, a credit card number, or perhaps a carrier code. Some carrier codes go after the number, therefore there is the suffix field too. The Local Area Prefix and Local Area Suffix are the same concept, but they are always dialed before/after numbers that are in the same area code as you are. If someone is in the same area code you are in, but is a long distance number, you enter their “exchange” in the Exchanges tab for the special dialing on the “Special” tab in the Phone Dialer setup window. For example, in the phone number “AAA-BBB-CCCC”, BBB represents the exchange. You could tell Contact Plus to dial BBB numbers as long distance, even though it’s the same area code. • What exactly is a filter? A useful way to handle working with a subset of the d
