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Old 06-03-2008, 10:48 AM
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
 
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Re: WinFax Pro and Printer Confusion
At one time WinFax Pro was designed to integrate with Outlook. It was one of
the first things to go sour when WinFax Pro went belly up.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:eyXHO6UxIHA.548@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Russ
>
> I notice your speciality is Outlook. Whilst I have Outlook installed I
> have never been comfortable using it. After reinstalling WinFax Pro and
> whilst trying to reconfigure WinFax Pro it took an interest in the
> existence of Outlook I had to insert my Office 2000 Professional CD.
> Perhaps I need to check whether Outlook might be part of the problem. It
> certainly would do no harm to check for updates.
>
> Thanks for your response and support <G>.
>
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> Gerry
> ~~~~
> FCA
> Stourport, England
> Enquire, plan and execute
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> Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
>> Bully. Stand by to provide support for the rest of the users.
>>> Russ
>>>
>>> My experience has been similar to Doug. It has worked well for
>>> nearly 4 years. It could the update to SP3 but WinFax Pro is still
>>> working, except for the macro and having to manually print incoming
>>> faxes. ~~~~
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>>>
>>> Gerry
>>> ~~~~
>>> FCA
>>> Stourport, England
>>> Enquire, plan and execute
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>>
>>> Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
>>>> You posted an exception. Hal posted the rule. I doubt very many
>>>> users will be as successful as you, but it's nice to know it's
>>>> worth trying if users are game to give it a go on their own with no
>>>> support.
>>>>> Not to argue with an MVP, but I have been using Winfax
>>>>> (successfully) with XP since XP came out - now at Winfax ver 10.3.
>>>>> Symantec is no help whatsoever & has not been for many years.
>>>>> The macros I have for Winfax (as installed from the WF prog) work
>>>>> OK, but do NOT return the default printer to what it was before you
>>>>> used WF, all of the times. I simply wrote a macro for Word & Excel
>>>>> that does return my default printer to what it was before.
>>>>>
>>>>> HTH
>>>>> Doug
>>>>>
>>>>> Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I] wrote:
>>>>>> Versions of WinFax later than version 9.x have proven to be
>>>>>> largely incompatible with Windows XP. WinFax, when installed on
>>>>>> an XP machine usually corrupts XP's Fax service to the point that
>>>>>> it cannot be resurrected
>>>>>> without an OS re-install. Symantec no longer offers any real tech
>>>>>> support
>>>>>> for this product. There are a number of group fax services
>>>>>> available that
>>>>>> are compatible with XP, my suggestion would be to get one. You
>>>>>> might also
>>>>>> want to see if Symantec has a user forum for WinFax; the primary
>>>>>> focus for
>>>>>> this forum is Windows XP Fax.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.slipstick.com/addins/services/groupfax.asp
>>>>>> Group Fax Services
>>>>>> http://www.slipstick.com/addins/services/fax.asp
>>>>>> Internet Fax Services
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hal

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