Resolved Contacts [Outlook 2007 - Enter phone no without country code]

I am using Windows 7 and Office 2007. Just tried to add a new contact, first one since using 2007, and Outlook will not accept a phone number unless I enter the code for the country I am operating from. I know that this might seem a minor irritation, but having paid for software it would be nice if I could use it in the way I want. Surely there must be a way around this.

 

Apologies for my first post. I enter the phone number the same as you. I assume that I must have missed a setting within Outlook. There was no problem when I installed 2007, it just took all 700 entries from Outlook 2000.

 

Have set up my location phone code, now working fine. Thanks