direct dial from outlook contact

Hi together,

hope to find some experts in the forum.

I use outlook contact and would like to make direct dial from outlook
contact to my home telephone. I mean e.g I select one contact, click from
outlook contact the phone number, it rings, and then I take as usual the
phone machine in the hand to speak.
What options there are for this:
- connect the telephone to the internet box (in this case, special phone
machine?)
- free software to download
- via Skype or jaja? then how?

thanks a lot for your help in advance

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stephane70
Managing Director
www.classics-vision.com
free classic cars marketplace

Brian
Wed Mar 26 12:37:11 PDT 2008

stephane70 <info@classics-vision.com> wrote:

> I use outlook contact and would like to make direct dial from outlook
> contact to my home telephone. I mean e.g I select one contact, click
> from outlook contact the phone number, it rings, and then I take as
> usual the phone machine in the hand to speak.

As far as I can tell, that's not possible with additional software. Outlook
uses the WIndows dialer to place the phone call and the Windows dialer can't
handle voice calls, only modem calls. Now, some voice modems come with
software that replaced the Windows dialer, so perhaps yours does. I've also
heard tell that Skype has a dialer that may integrate, but I've also seen
plenty of posts describing how Skype interferes with the correct operation
of Outlook.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Brian
Wed Mar 26 17:28:13 PDT 2008

Brian Tillman <tillman1952@yahoo.com> wrote:

> As far as I can tell, that's not possible with additional software.

That should read "without additional software."
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]