It already allows you to fax to people with an electronic address. I suspect what you really mean is that Microsoft should fix the cosmetic "display" to fit what you want, correct? In all other aspects, the program performs as expected and required, it is just that you don't care for the display.

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| Thanks, Milly. I didn't know that.
|
| So what MS really needs to do is fix the Mail program so that it will
| fax messages to people you select from the list.
|
| Otherwise, what is the value of having that "virtual" view of valid
| electronic addresses?
|
| On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:44:46 -0700, "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| wrote:
|
|| There is nothing to "fix." The Outlook Address Book is a "virtual"
|| view of your contacts with valid electronic addresses, which means
|| both email and fax.
||
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|| After furious head scratching, Anonymous asked:
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||| Thanks for the great kludge, Peter.
|||
||| This has been a problem for many many years. Why hasn't MS fixed
||| it?
|||
||| On 19 Oct 2006 12:37:32 -0700, "Peter Marchert"
||| wrote:
|||
|||| Hello Riggs,
||||
|||| export your contacts to excel and add some characters to all
|||| faxnumbers (for example "fax: +49 (911) 12345678"). Then import
|||| them again to outlook.