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January 18th 06, 05:11 PM
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Hi,
When entering the fax number in the To box it says it cannot find a contact. Is there a way of entering the fax number without having to add a new contact i.e. the same with email addresses? Basically I have a MS Access app which I need to be able to fax a report. I can email it with no problems. James 
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January 18th 06, 07:32 PM
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Start by posting your fax software, Outlook version, and method by which you
are selecting your recipient. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "James" wrote in message ... Hi, When entering the fax number in the To box it says it cannot find a contact. Is there a way of entering the fax number without having to add a new contact i.e. the same with email addresses? Basically I have a MS Access app which I need to be able to fax a report. I can email it with no problems. James
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January 19th 06, 01:39 PM
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Hi,
I have a SBS 2003 shared fax, Outlook 2003 and Access 2003. I have managed to cobble together the VBA code to fax from Access 2003. I found after some playing around that the fax number needs to be passed from Access to Outlook in the format of [Fax: 01234 567890] and not just 01234 567890 as the latter format will then ask for you to select a contact. Thanks for the reply, James "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Start by posting your fax software, Outlook version, and method by which you are selecting your recipient. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "James" wrote in message ... Hi, When entering the fax number in the To box it says it cannot find a contact. Is there a way of entering the fax number without having to add a new contact i.e. the same with email addresses? Basically I have a MS Access app which I need to be able to fax a report. I can email it with no problems. James
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January 19th 06, 01:42 PM
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Oh here is the details of what I put together if anyone else is stuck.
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...323&sloc=en-us James "James" wrote: Hi, I have a SBS 2003 shared fax, Outlook 2003 and Access 2003. I have managed to cobble together the VBA code to fax from Access 2003. I found after some playing around that the fax number needs to be passed from Access to Outlook in the format of [Fax: 01234 567890] and not just 01234 567890 as the latter format will then ask for you to select a contact. Thanks for the reply, James "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Start by posting your fax software, Outlook version, and method by which you are selecting your recipient. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "James" wrote in message ... Hi, When entering the fax number in the To box it says it cannot find a contact. Is there a way of entering the fax number without having to add a new contact i.e. the same with email addresses? Basically I have a MS Access app which I need to be able to fax a report. I can email it with no problems. James
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January 19th 06, 09:35 PM
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Correct. Programmatic and one-off faxing with Microsoft Fax products all
require that format. Makes fax merges interesting since Outlook doesn't store numbers that way. Here's the official version: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=289532 -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "James" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a SBS 2003 shared fax, Outlook 2003 and Access 2003. I have managed to cobble together the VBA code to fax from Access 2003. I found after some playing around that the fax number needs to be passed from Access to Outlook in the format of [Fax: 01234 567890] and not just 01234 567890 as the latter format will then ask for you to select a contact. Thanks for the reply, James "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Start by posting your fax software, Outlook version, and method by which you are selecting your recipient. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "James" wrote in message ... Hi, When entering the fax number in the To box it says it cannot find a contact. Is there a way of entering the fax number without having to add a new contact i.e. the same with email addresses? Basically I have a MS Access app which I need to be able to fax a report. I can email it with no problems. James
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January 20th 06, 09:25 AM
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For a business developing an Access application surely faxing reports is a
common requirement? If so how come they don't make it easy to such a simple task? Hopefully the new Access 12 will be much easy to acomplish all those required tasks! Thanks for the link Russ, James "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Correct. Programmatic and one-off faxing with Microsoft Fax products all require that format. Makes fax merges interesting since Outlook doesn't store numbers that way. Here's the official version: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=289532 -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "James" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a SBS 2003 shared fax, Outlook 2003 and Access 2003. I have managed to cobble together the VBA code to fax from Access 2003. I found after some playing around that the fax number needs to be passed from Access to Outlook in the format of [Fax: 01234 567890] and not just 01234 567890 as the latter format will then ask for you to select a contact. Thanks for the reply, James "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Start by posting your fax software, Outlook version, and method by which you are selecting your recipient. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "James" wrote in message ... Hi, When entering the fax number in the To box it says it cannot find a contact. Is there a way of entering the fax number without having to add a new contact i.e. the same with email addresses? Basically I have a MS Access app which I need to be able to fax a report. I can email it with no problems. James
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January 20th 06, 10:19 AM
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Unfortunately, Microsoft Fax services were never intended to be useful or
functional. I rather suspect they will be abandoned completely rather than improved. It would be wise to look to third party alternatives. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "James" wrote in message ... For a business developing an Access application surely faxing reports is a common requirement? If so how come they don't make it easy to such a simple task? Hopefully the new Access 12 will be much easy to acomplish all those required tasks! Thanks for the link Russ, James "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Correct. Programmatic and one-off faxing with Microsoft Fax products all require that format. Makes fax merges interesting since Outlook doesn't store numbers that way. Here's the official version: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=289532 -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "James" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a SBS 2003 shared fax, Outlook 2003 and Access 2003. I have managed to cobble together the VBA code to fax from Access 2003. I found after some playing around that the fax number needs to be passed from Access to Outlook in the format of [Fax: 01234 567890] and not just 01234 567890 as the latter format will then ask for you to select a contact. Thanks for the reply, James "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: Start by posting your fax software, Outlook version, and method by which you are selecting your recipient. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "James" wrote in message ... Hi, When entering the fax number in the To box it says it cannot find a contact. Is there a way of entering the fax number without having to add a new contact i.e. the same with email addresses? Basically I have a MS Access app which I need to be able to fax a report. I can email it with no problems. James
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