Thanks Steve, I have now taken your advice and made the necessary adjustments to my Contacts folder. Will see what happens next time. Of interest, if someone blocks or hides their number ID, then when they call it says Private number. Now what I want to know is if I sent a text message to someone and did not want my number there, is this possible? I don't think it would be. For some reason I am thinking maybe it would be illegal because people could then send all sorts of anomonous text messages. Eleanor ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Nutt To: talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 7:29 PM Subject: [talks-uk] Re: Text Messages and Person's ID Hi Eleanor, This is because of caller display. If you enter a mobile phone number as 07956334938, then it won't always work. But if you enter it as +447956334938, then it should work. This has the added advantage that you can dial someone from anywhere in the world. All the best Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: talks-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:talks-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eleanor Burke Sent: Thursday 1 January 2009 17:47 To: talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [talks-uk] Text Messages and Person's ID Hi I have Contacts in my Contacts folder and yet with them when I am receiving a text message it is not giving their names but their telephone number. Why is this? Eleanor