How to Make Phone Numbers Callable in Google Sheets
If you click an email link on a webpage, it opens your default mail program. Similarly, you can make phone numbers on your website “callable” meaning when someone clicks the phone number, it will launch the dialer on their mobile phone and initiate dialing of the specified phone number. It is recommended that you make phone numbers clickable as more and more people would be accessing your site on their mobile devices. How to Insert Clickable Phone Numbers in Web Pages We use the simple tel protocol to convert a plain text phone number on a web page into a clickable telephone link. For instance, if you click this link on a mobile phone, it will open the phone dialer prefilled with the specified number. There’s no need to copy-paste numbers. How to Type Phone Numbers in a Google Sheet It is a bit tricky to type phone numbers inside Google Spreadsheets. Here’s why: Phone numbers are mostly made of digits preceded by the plus (+) symbol. The problem is as soon as add the p...