PC-to-phone calls - no equivalent 2 phone numb pad

[soybean]

During the past week, I've used Yahoo! Messenger's PC-to-phone service a few times to call a regular phone from my PC.  Today, I made a call which was answered by an automated system and I was prompted to respond to questions by hitting a number.  You know the routine, right?  

Of course, I had to hang up and use a regular phone, since there's no way to provide such responses.  The keypad on the computer keyboard had no interaction with the PC-to-phone software once a connection is made with a phone.  

I'm sure there's no way around this.  Just thought I mention it in case anyone has used another PC-to-phone service, such as Skype, and can actually do this.

[Rob Pomeroy]

Search for "tone dialling" in the help files...?

[soybean]

I couldn't find anything in the help files but I finally discovered that a keypad can be displayed on screen by clicking on a small icon in the dial-up panel.  It looks like this:



Numbers can be sent either by clicking on them with the mouse or hitting the number keys on the keyboard.  

[Zylstra]

Skype can dial such numbers, you can either press the keypad number (though, there is a delay) or use the keyboard (but UPPER number charecters, !@#$%^&*() have difficulties)

[patio]

Quit swearing...

[Zylstra]

lol, Patio

Almost seems like it