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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