What should I use to dial phone numbers on my computer?

May 1, 2013 5:50 PM

I've got a Mac and an iPhone. I have a huge list of phone numbers to call in a spreadsheet. I'd like to copy/paste from the spreadsheet into a dialer which then dials my phone. Any suggestions?

This is an "odd job" I'm doing for a few days and then hopefully will never need this again. So, hoping to find an app solution for very little money.

posted by amanda to Technology (3 answers total)

If you have google voice, you can paste the numbers into the web interface, it will dial your cell phone and when you pick up, it'll ring the outgoing number.

Not the most glamorous method, but it works, I've done the same thing in the past, though my situation was that I had free incoming calls so I used GV to make ALL the calls free.
posted by HermitDog at 6:04 PM on May 1, 2013 [1 favorite]

Best answer: If you copy/paste them into an email, send the email to yourself, and view the email on your iPhone, then you should be able to just tap each number and the phone will dial them.

Alternately, you could upload them to a webpage somewhere that you view on your mobile browser, with the same result.
posted by ceribus peribus at 6:37 PM on May 1, 2013 [4 favorites]

Response by poster: I'm pretty much grooving on the method ceribus peribus posted after not finding any apps that were reviewed as being reliable. I think the google voice method would work as well.

For the record, google drive would not recognize the numbers after I uploaded the spreadsheet, though I didn't try to copy/paste. Evernote also did not "convert" the numbers to clickable by my phone.
posted by amanda at 9:16 AM on May 2, 2013