Finally, with Windows XP fax, this blank cover page is suppressed. If you fax a document as an attachment from Outlook but write no message, Outlook sends the cover page but no blank page follows for your non-existent note.
If you send a document from an Office application to a fax recipient using the Send to Mail Recipient command and place a note in the Introduction field, than that note will appear above the first page of the document, not on a separate page.
In either case, no blank pages are sent. By the way, should you be tempted to use the seemingly useful Send To Fax Recipient command, resist that temptation.
You'll be in for a surprise. Read on. Are you ready for the bad news? It seems Microsoft can't give us new features without taking others away. You can say farewell, for example, to the universal Inbox.
Most veteran users of faxing from Outlook use Outlook so they can have a single repository for all their electronic fax and e-mail messages.
Microsoft did consider adding a feature to allow routing of faxes to an SMTP server, but later removed that feature. Received faxes can go only to the Inbox of the Fax Console and to an additional system folder if you so desire , but not to Outlook. Sent faxes also reside in the Fax Console Sent Items folder, but if you've sent the fax from Outlook, a copy is also stored in Outlook's Sent Items folder.
In fact, there is no option at all for delivery receipts for a local fax device. The only delivery notification you receive is a pop up balloon at the end of the transmission while the Fax monitor is still in the system tray. The only time you can get delivery receipts is when you are sending to a remote fax device that supports them. You can specify whether you want a single receipt when you send a fax to multiple recipients and if you want a copy of the sent fax attached to the delivery receipt.
These options are set in the Tools Microsoft Fax Attributes menu in the new message window of Outlook. One feature we were all hoping would appear with the XP fax service has remained notably absent, sharing of the fax service. Other missing features fall into the category of deficiencies of the Windows Fax service that Microsoft did not address in this release.
Fax merges, for example, require the the fax number in the contact record top be in one-off format. Microsoft now acknowledges that idiosyncrasy and provides a workaround. The message format needs to be in HTML if you want to avoid the email security prompts from Outlook or patched versions of Outlook The fax service still does not place a 'fax recipient' option in Word for a merge.
You must still merge to an e-mail recipient. Other annoyances from Windows persist as well. The ability to specify faxing options on a per message basis for a fax message sent from Outlook using the Tools Microsoft Fax Attributes menu is still missing when Word is the editor, ironic since Word is Outlook's default mail editor in Outlook And the old Microsoft Fax Wizard still appears whenever you try to fax from an Office application using the Send To Fax recipient command.
If you use this option, you'll get to send two faxes: the first will contain your default cover page plus the cover page the Microsoft Fax Wizard creates. The second will again contain your default cover page and the document you intended to fax in the first place. Remember that the wizard is now particularly useful since you have full access to your Outlook Address Book instead of the WAB. She also created video training CDs and online training classes for Microsoft Outlook.
After some failed experiments e. After I finish some more pressing upgrade tasks e. Hopefully at least one will explain how I should re-install the Fax Service so that it too works properly by finding my Address books one for the Admin account, and one in the User account in my understanding of the paths you suggested: … Read more ».
This is an update of my original post. But I still need answers to the questions I have posted above. However, in searching the registry to see if I could find a solution to my problem of the WinXPsp3 Fax service giving me an empty address book i. Is my WinXPsp3 Fax service unable to find the address book caused by either one or both of these two subkeys to be missing some key information? If so, how would I correct that? Poremsky: Thank you very much for your reply. I very much appreciate your taking the time to confirm where a non-Outlook Fax Address Book would be.
And each of those address books contained the appropriate addresses. Clicking that gets me an address book that DOES have an address in it only one address, because I rarely fax while in the Administrator account. However, for reasons that will become clear below, I'm not sure that the Send Fax Wizard's Address book was in the location you gave me. In the Limited User account, if I go through the same steps as I did in the Administrator account, I get an address book with nothing in it, although there should … Read more ».
At the moment, it has no addresses in it. I try to make time to reply in the timely manner Schedule Management. Calendar Printing Tools. Fax Server ». How is it done? To install the fax component, do the following: 1.
Click Start, and then click Run. Click Finish. The fax component is now installed but it must be configured. Do the following: Step 1: Configure the cover page, select a modem, and enable the fax service to send and receive faxes a.
The Fax Configuration Wizard starts. Select Pulse or Tone, plus any of the other options that may apply to you, and click OK. In the Please select the fax device list, click the modem that you want to use.
Click Next. Confirm the configuration settings in the Configuration Summary list, and then click Finish. Windows will then start the "Send a new fax wizard" that will easily guide you through the steps for sending a fax. The Fax Console is where you can see your incoming and outgoing faxes. That will also launch the "Send a New Fax" wizard. The wizard will ask the recipient's name and fax number, allowing you to place this information in an Address Book.
Just as with more advanced fax software for Windows XP, you can send the same fax to multiple recipients. The wizard will also prompt you to choose one of the pre-designed cover sheets, where you can enter a subject line and any additional information that you would like to add. Once the Microsoft Service is installed, it will run automatically when your computer is turned on, listening for the phone to ring. When it does, you will see a message in the notification area bottom right of your screen.
Simply click this message to start receiving the fax. Once the fax is received, it will be available for you in the Fax Console.
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