Use a subset of World Time to quickly find International phone access codes and city codes
Now that the world has gotten smaller, many of us have to make more international calls, and it is hard to remember all the different access and city codes. Fortunately, we can customize the World Time application to help us with this.
First, switch to the World Time and create a new subset by pressing (F6), then (ALT)--Define.. Do not enter anything in the fields, just confirm by pressing (F10). Name your new subset Countries and press (F10) and then (ENTER).to select the new subset.
Now modify the column display of your new subset. Press (MENU) View Arrange Columns to access the Arrange Columns screen. Use the ArrowKeys to select the country column. Then press (F7) to move it to the first column. The city column should move to the second column. Now press (F2) and select the following fields to be added as columns: Intl Access and City Prefix. You can adjust the width of the columns from the Arrange Columns screen by highlighting the desired column and pressing (F5) to decrease and (F6) to increase the width.
When we have the columns set properly, press (F10). Next, press (MENU) View Sort and use Up- and DownArrow keys to select Country in the 1st sort field . Press (ALT) 2 to go to the second sort field and select City . Press (F10) when you're finished.
Now when you want to look up a International Access code and City code, simply open World Time, Choose the country subset and start typing the name of the country you need. You will see the country name and all of the cities included in the database for that country sorted in ascending order. Next to that will be the International access code and city code, and you will also know what time it is there!
Tom Gibson
Thaddeus Computing
tom_gibson@thaddeus.com