Google Voice – Buggy in Gmail with two numbers

We like Google Voice and decided to give our company an additional Google Voice number.

We experienced the following snafus:

1. Google Voice correctly sends incoming Voice mails to the right email accounts.
2. Google voice in our original Gmail and in the new Gmail account both show the new Google Voice dial out configuration which does not work at all.  We can’t access our original Google Voice Dial out in it’s dedicated email.
3. We have to dial out – outside of Gmail via phone or log in to the account.

We have not found a fix for this.  Advice Welcome.

Google Auto Dial – Phone Number Formats that Don’t Work

Google Voice Auto-Dial does not always work.  We have found that the following types of phone number formats do not activate AutoDial.  According to our findings, Auto-dial cannot read these number formats:

• xxx.xxx.xxxx  i.e. 333.333.3333
• (xxx) xxx-xxxx i.e. (333) 333-3333
• phone numbers on an image – phone numbers on a gif or jpg

According to our findings. Phone numbers must be written in this format to pull up Auto-Dial:

• xxx-xxx-xxxx i.e. 333-333-3333

Ironically, Google Voice Email Alerts format your callers numbers as (xxx) xxx-xxxx in the Email Subject Line.

Hopefully Google is working on this!

Google Voice Auto-Dial

How to Use AutoDial - Phone Number Formats

We love Google Voice Auto Dial.   In your Google Voice/Gmail account, run your cursor over a phone number and Voila, a dialog box pops up.  Dial the number by selecting the phone you want to dial out from.  Google Voice rings your phone at that number and connects your call when you pick up.

Google Voice – How to Install Google Voice Extension to Chrome

We still have not figured out how to re-install Google Voice on our desktop.   (See How to Re-Install Google Voice).  We did find out that Google Voice can be installed in Chrome. This applications functionality is limited but useful. 

  If you have Chrome installed:

Under chrome extensions:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kcnhkahnjcbndmmehfkdnkjomaanaooo

Works when:  You must to be logged in to your Google Account (the one that has a Google Voice number)  

Does Not Work when:   When you exit  chrome or log  into a Google Account without a Google Voice Number, this function does not work.

Wanted- Meta Tag Guaranteed to Flush CHROME Browser Cache!

We can’t find a meta tag that will clear Chrome’s browser cache. The standard one’s we use on our site don’t work.

This one works with a manual refresh of Chrome:  

META Http-Equiv=”Cache-Control” Content=”no-store”

Without this Meta Tag our Chrome browser does not refresh web pages.

Any advice welcome here!