Re: finding a fax in the fax console?

From: Rod Keys (rod_keys_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/12/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 09:02:07 +1000

For what it's worth, I ran into some of your problems very early in the
piece too.
I use the fax component as the console, not from Outlook, I use it mainly
from Word and Excel, and also from my scanning software.
My solution to the problem of identifying faxes is to copy them to a folder
set up just for fax messages, when saving them in this folder, give each
file (image) a specific name which allows you to identify the subject.
Time consuming and clumsy as it may be, it is the only way I've been able to
come up with a workable solution, and I'm processing more than ten faxes a
day doing this.

<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:c17301c4087d$a2e1d5a0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Ouch!
>
> I will follow your recomendation to contact them. Thank
> you.
>
> Since we are stuck with the console for the time being,
> shouldn't I be able to view a fax from it by either
> double clicking on a fax item, or highlighting a fax item
> and selecting the view button, or go to the file/view
> menu?
>
> I can't seem to open any of the faxes in the inbox or
> sent item folder. There is no responce from the program.
>
> Please advise.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >The only thing fax4Outlook ever did was copy faxes from
> the Fax Console
> >Inbox to the Outlook Inbox.
> >
> >Surely by now you've realized that Windows XP Fax is
> bare bones fax
> >software. That's all it was ever intended to be. Nowhere
> have I seen
> >Microsoft promise that Windows XP Fax would be all that
> you'd ever need in
> >fax software. Routing to Outlook's Inbox and other
> integration with Outlook
> >has been all but eliminated.
> >
> >I really think Microsoft was leaving it to third party
> vendors to develop
> >and provide full featured fax software for Windows XP.
> Since no one seems to
> >have done so, it now becomes a matter of speculation as
> to whether
> >Microsoft's Fax and Outlook developers will try to fill
> this void in
> >upcoming versions. That all depends on the perceived
> market I suspect. Tell
> >them what you think. You can send Outlook feature
> requests to
> >mswish@microsoft.com with "Outlook" in the subject and to
> >outwish@microsoft.com
> >
> >--
> >Russ Valentine
> >[MVP-Outlook]
> ><anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >news:915901c40866$cf836e00$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> >> I am currently using fax4Outlook, which I believe
> >> utilizes the Microsoft fax console, to send and receive
> >> faxes directly within Outlook 2002 on a Windows XP
> >> operating system.
> >>
> >> The problem that I'm having is that the fax4Outlook
> >> program is so horribly unstable, that I end up losing
> all
> >> of my faxes from the Outlook inbox and sent items
> folder
> >> sporadically throughout the week.
> >>
> >> I am perplexed with the functionality of the Microsoft
> >> fax console in that there does not appear to be anyway
> to
> >> add a meaningful subject or even the senders or
> receivers
> >> information to a fax item in the console.
> >>
> >> That being said, how does anyone using the fax console
> >> find a fax that was sent or received among the hundreds
> >> of faxes there without wasting valuable time searching
> >> through the list each time?
> >>
> >> Any advice would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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