Mail Merge to Fax - Word 2003

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I am trying to do a Mail Merge with output to my fax modem. I am currently sending individual faxes the software that comes with WinXP (MS Fax?) to fax a price list to my customers and it works great (just using file-->print and choosing 'fax'). But now I need to use mail merge to save some time when I'm faxing 'personalized' messages to multiple recipients

When I go to do a Mail Merge, it does not display the option to fax as it says it should in the help file. I have tried the workaround for Outlook 2002 (I'm using OL 2003 but this was the only fix I could find online) where it has you use [fax:xxxxxxxxxxx] as the email recipient. This doesn't work either - it just tries to send it via SMTP instead of faxing it.

Does anyone know what I can do to get this working, more specifically to get 'fax' to display in the Mail Merge wizard

Thanks in advance
Paul

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?UGF1bA==?=,

I am trying to do a Mail Merge with output to my fax modem.

Try doing a Google search in the word.mailmerge.fields
newsgroup on Peter Jamieson fax

Peter's posted a macro a couple of times that ought to help
with this.

Otherwise, the other place to check is in an OUTLOOK
newsgroup.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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