Outlook Meetings - Cell-Friendly Call-in Numbers

Tech Tip – Outlook Edition: Cell-Friendly Call-In Numbers

If you’re anything like me, you are often driving in your car when you need to call into a meeting. Ever notice how annoying/difficult it is to drive, dial into a meeting, and then find the meeting participant code and dial it in?

Here’s a solution! If you type the phone number, then add two commas after the phone number, then put the participant number and pound sign, when you click the link from your cell phone it will dial the number, wait for a few seconds, then continue to dial the participant  number and hit pound. (note this must be consistent with the call-in service you are using, but I believe most major services work like this; i.e. Verizon)

Regardless of whether you created the meeting or you are a recipient of the meeting invite, you can still edit the meeting invite, go into the “Location” of the meeting, and type in the call-in and participant code for the meeting. If you do this from your computer ahead of time, when the time comes to call in and you’re driving or just have your phone but no computer handy, your future self will be very thankful.

Here are a few screen shots:

 

From the computer:

 

From the iPhone:

 

 

Happy Meetings!