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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / November 2003mailmerge to electronic fax problem
I need to fax a customized letter that has been mail merged using Word 2000 and Access. For example, I have the following fields in Access: "faxnumber" "firstname" "lastname". Mailmerge is easy if I want to print, but I need to fax each individual letter to a different fax number. I do not have the fax numbers or names in Outlook. I just want to use the information found in the Access table. I understand that I probably need a "MAPI compatible" fax program to get the "electronic fax" option to come up under the mail merge setup box. However, I am unsure if this will let me send the indiviualized faxes to individual numbers, or will it simply send the fax to the fax software and then I have to put in the number? I have the following software/hardware: Microsoft Word 2000 Windows 98 Microsoft Access Hayes Fax Modem 1. What further software do I need? I guess I need fax software but what one? 2. How do I do it? Thanks! Well, Win98 does come with the old Microsoft "Fax at Work" software that was in Win95,. But a. it's not installed by default. (As far as I can tell, it's not even supplied with later versions of Win98, but I think it is in a folder called \tools\oldwin95\message\ on the CD). b. it can be tricky to get it to work. To do what you are attempting, you probably need to have the old MS Exchange client software, or Outlook (not Outlook Express) installed. c. Personally, I would be a bit reluctant to jeopardise a stable, working system by installing it. In your situation, I'd probably consider getting a copy of Symantec WinFax Pro 10 (a quick look for "mail merge" in their support database suggests that it can at least do the job). But it's a very long time since I've used WinFax. -- Peter Jamieson MS Word MVP > I need to fax a customized letter that has been mail merged using Word 2000 > and Access. For example, I have the following fields in Access: "faxnumber" [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > 2. How do I do it? > Thanks! I took a chance and purchased Win Fax Pro and it worked. The problem is solved! > Well, Win98 does come with the old Microsoft "Fax at Work" software that was > in Win95,. But [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > > 2. How do I do it? > > Thanks! Glad it worked, and thanks for the very useful feedback. -- Peter Jamieson MS Word MVP > I took a chance and purchased Win Fax Pro and it worked. The problem is > solved! [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] > > > 2. How do I do it? > > > Thanks! |
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