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Faxing from Windows XP Fax Wizard
Does anyone know how to fax Word documents, PDF files, etc with only ONE
cover page??? It seems if I want to fax 2 items, the Fax Wizard automatically creates a cover page for EACH item I'm faxing. So I will fax my cover letter, but then it creates a separate cover page for my resume. I just need one cover page for these 2. Thanks! |
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Faxing from Windows XP Fax Wizard
Not supported.
You can only do this by faxing from Outlook. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "beezimfunky" wrote in message ... Does anyone know how to fax Word documents, PDF files, etc with only ONE cover page??? It seems if I want to fax 2 items, the Fax Wizard automatically creates a cover page for EACH item I'm faxing. So I will fax my cover letter, but then it creates a separate cover page for my resume. I just need one cover page for these 2. Thanks! |
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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
Not supported. You can only do this by faxing from Outlook. I think maybe you misunderstood. I think the OP just wants to know how to send without a cover page--that is, send the first fax (a cover letter with a cover page) and then another (the résumé without a cover page)--two transmissions. |
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Faxing from Windows XP Fax Wizard
Perhaps, but that answer would be obvious. Printing to the Fax Printer
always provides the option not to include a cover page. I rather suspect the OP is trying to send more than one document with only one cover page. If so, my answer stands unless you can provide another. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Raymond J. Johnson Jr." wrote in message ... Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote: Not supported. You can only do this by faxing from Outlook. I think maybe you misunderstood. I think the OP just wants to know how to send without a cover page--that is, send the first fax (a cover letter with a cover page) and then another (the résumé without a cover page)--two transmissions. |
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Faxing from Windows XP Fax Wizard
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
Perhaps, but that answer would be obvious. Printing to the Fax Printer always provides the option not to include a cover page. I rather suspect the OP is trying to send more than one document with only one cover page. If so, my answer stands unless you can provide another. No need to get snippy. I don't use the fax function, and you're the putative expert. I saw something in the OP that perhaps you might have misinterpreted. And you of all people should know that the bloody obvious isn't, for some people. |
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Faxing from Windows XP Fax Wizard
Sorry you thought I was being snippy. I wasn't. Like you, I was just trying
to read between the lines of a very unclear post and had to make certain assumptions. Your assumption may be correct. I just know that most posters who ask similar questions are trying to figure out how to send multiple documents in one transmission and I haven't found a way to for XP Fax to do that. I thought maybe you had. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Raymond J. Johnson Jr." wrote in message ... Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote: Perhaps, but that answer would be obvious. Printing to the Fax Printer always provides the option not to include a cover page. I rather suspect the OP is trying to send more than one document with only one cover page. If so, my answer stands unless you can provide another. No need to get snippy. I don't use the fax function, and you're the putative expert. I saw something in the OP that perhaps you might have misinterpreted. And you of all people should know that the bloody obvious isn't, for some people. |
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Faxing from Windows XP Fax Wizard
I think I can supply a way to send 2 or more documents with just
one cover page. Lets say the files to send are file1.doc, file2.gif, and file3.jpg. I would copy these 3 files to a new folder named faxjunk or whatever. They should show up in Windows Explorer in the folder in top down order of 1,2 and 3. Highlight all 3 files, right click on the 3 higlighted folders, choose Print and print to the Fax. In the Send Fax thingee, select your cover page and enter needed info, click on Preview before finishing and you should see the cover page and the 3 other pages in the Fax Viewer. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message ... Perhaps, but that answer would be obvious. Printing to the Fax Printer always provides the option not to include a cover page. I rather suspect the OP is trying to send more than one document with only one cover page. If so, my answer stands unless you can provide another. |
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Faxing from Windows XP Fax Wizard
That context menu does not provide the option to select your fax printer. It
will only print to your default printer. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Rancy Snyder" wrote in message ... I think I can supply a way to send 2 or more documents with just one cover page. Lets say the files to send are file1.doc, file2.gif, and file3.jpg. I would copy these 3 files to a new folder named faxjunk or whatever. They should show up in Windows Explorer in the folder in top down order of 1,2 and 3. Highlight all 3 files, right click on the 3 higlighted folders, choose Print and print to the Fax. In the Send Fax thingee, select your cover page and enter needed info, click on Preview before finishing and you should see the cover page and the 3 other pages in the Fax Viewer. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message ... Perhaps, but that answer would be obvious. Printing to the Fax Printer always provides the option not to include a cover page. I rather suspect the OP is trying to send more than one document with only one cover page. If so, my answer stands unless you can provide another. |
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Faxing from Windows XP Fax Wizard
Hi, All;
That got me curious. I set my fax printer as the default. No dice: right-click print brought up the picture printing wizard (I had an Excel file, a JPEG, and a TIF). Okay. I dragged all three files (at once) onto the fax printer icon. It asked me if I was sure I wanted to print multiple files. I clicked yes, and it brought up consecutive wizards, one for each file. It appears that Russ is correct. Regards, Ian. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: That context menu does not provide the option to select your fax printer. It will only print to your default printer. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Rancy Snyder" wrote in message ... I think I can supply a way to send 2 or more documents with just one cover page. Lets say the files to send are file1.doc, file2.gif, and file3.jpg. I would copy these 3 files to a new folder named faxjunk or whatever. They should show up in Windows Explorer in the folder in top down order of 1,2 and 3. Highlight all 3 files, right click on the 3 higlighted folders, choose Print and print to the Fax. In the Send Fax thingee, select your cover page and enter needed info, click on Preview before finishing and you should see the cover page and the 3 other pages in the Fax Viewer. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message ... Perhaps, but that answer would be obvious. Printing to the Fax Printer always provides the option not to include a cover page. I rather suspect the OP is trying to send more than one document with only one cover page. If so, my answer stands unless you can provide another. |
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Faxing from Windows XP Fax Wizard
It works for me. What is your "picture printing wizard?" HP Photo,
Adobe? Russ didn't say that it didn't work, only that right clicking a file and selecting PRINT will only print to the default printer.Give me your fax number, set a date and time, and I will fax you 3 pages of 3 different files with a cover page. Rancy Snyder "IanRoy" wrote in message ... Hi, All; That got me curious. I set my fax printer as the default. No dice: right-click print brought up the picture printing wizard (I had an Excel file, a JPEG, and a TIF). Okay. I dragged all three files (at once) onto the fax printer icon. It asked me if I was sure I wanted to print multiple files. I clicked yes, and it brought up consecutive wizards, one for each file. It appears that Russ is correct. Regards, Ian. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: That context menu does not provide the option to select your fax printer. It will only print to your default printer. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Rancy Snyder" wrote in message ... I think I can supply a way to send 2 or more documents with just one cover page. Lets say the files to send are file1.doc, file2.gif, and file3.jpg. I would copy these 3 files to a new folder named faxjunk or whatever. They should show up in Windows Explorer in the folder in top down order of 1,2 and 3. Highlight all 3 files, right click on the 3 higlighted folders, choose Print and print to the Fax. In the Send Fax thingee, select your cover page and enter needed info, click on Preview before finishing and you should see the cover page and the 3 other pages in the Fax Viewer. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message ... Perhaps, but that answer would be obvious. Printing to the Fax Printer always provides the option not to include a cover page. I rather suspect the OP is trying to send more than one document with only one cover page. If so, my answer stands unless you can provide another. |
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Faxing from Windows XP Fax Wizard
Hi, Rancy Snyder;
It says "Welcome to the Photo Printing Wizard." It is part of XP I believe, and is triggered when the file under the cursor is an image (strike that, some kinds of images--a TIF got the fax wizard). If, with all three files selected, I right click the Excel file instead, I get the fax wizard, cancel that, and I get a fax wizard for the TIF followed by a Photo wizard for the GIF. Selecting three Word documents got me similar results: three separate fax wizards. Of course, one could be sent with a cover page, and the others without, and also, one could paste two of the documents into the third and fax the resulting single file (and I don't think I'd be able to tell from the resulting fax if that is what you did.) If you are able to send multiple files as one fax, I would be interested to hear not whether, but how; because following your directions did not give me the results you described: "click on Preview before finishing and you should see the cover page and the 3 other pages in the Fax Viewer." I get one page (one page docs) and two more wizards. I didn't see anything in Fax Console Help about it. Regards, Ian. "Rancy Snyder" wrote: It works for me. What is your "picture printing wizard?" HP Photo, Adobe? Russ didn't say that it didn't work, only that right clicking a file and selecting PRINT will only print to the default printer.Give me your fax number, set a date and time, and I will fax you 3 pages of 3 different files with a cover page. Rancy Snyder "IanRoy" wrote in message ... Hi, All; That got me curious. I set my fax printer as the default. No dice: right-click print brought up the picture printing wizard (I had an Excel file, a JPEG, and a TIF). Okay. I dragged all three files (at once) onto the fax printer icon. It asked me if I was sure I wanted to print multiple files. I clicked yes, and it brought up consecutive wizards, one for each file. It appears that Russ is correct. Regards, Ian. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: That context menu does not provide the option to select your fax printer. It will only print to your default printer. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Rancy Snyder" wrote in message ... I think I can supply a way to send 2 or more documents with just one cover page. Lets say the files to send are file1.doc, file2.gif, and file3.jpg. I would copy these 3 files to a new folder named faxjunk or whatever. They should show up in Windows Explorer in the folder in top down order of 1,2 and 3. Highlight all 3 files, right click on the 3 higlighted folders, choose Print and print to the Fax. In the Send Fax thingee, select your cover page and enter needed info, click on Preview before finishing and you should see the cover page and the 3 other pages in the Fax Viewer. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message ... Perhaps, but that answer would be obvious. Printing to the Fax Printer always provides the option not to include a cover page. I rather suspect the OP is trying to send more than one document with only one cover page. If so, my answer stands unless you can provide another. |
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Faxing from Windows XP Fax Wizard
For IanRoy,
To assemble several different documents to send in one fax transmission with XP Fax Console: It is best to convert the files into a .tif file. If you can open them in Paint or some other graphic program, then they should be able to be saved in the .TIF format. If they can't be opened and converted to .tif then this can be accomplished by printing the file to the Fax. When the Fax Wizard comes up, you can enter any name in the to box. DO NOT USE A COVER PAGE. I then type my own phone number into the proper box. If things go wrong, the worse that will happen is that it will try to send the fax to my fax number and it will get a busy signal. If this happens, viola, the file will now be in the Fax Console Outbox in the form of a .tif. View it in the Image and Fax Viewer and copy it to C:\junkfax or whatever you want to call your working fax folder. Right away, rename the file as perhaps doc1.tif. If you don't rename it and leave it in the long name that the Fax Console assigned to it, it might get deleted when you close the Viewer as the Fax Console treats it as a temporary file. If you haven't screwed up and sent the fax by mistake to your own phone number, click to Preview the fax. Then copy it as described above while it is displayed in the Viewer. Also, save the file and rename it as described above. After it is renamed, cancel the fax and now find you 2nd document and go through the same procedure again, perhaps naming the 2nd file as doc2.tif. Once you have 3 or 4 files in your working folder, highlight the files, then right click on them and select PRINT. Fax should be setup as your default printer. Now add your cover page in the fax wizard and in the Viewer you should see your cover page followed by the 2 or 3 other files that you had highlighted. You can now SEND the fax and it should go through with all of the documents. I sometimes do all of this another way if I can get the files into Paint. First I set up my word processor with all page margins of zero. I now have a full page to display a scanned graphic page or .pdf file. I then type in on my word processor the info that would go on a cover sheet. Thus I make up my own cover sheet and save it as a template. After putting in the fields I highlight all of the entries and then use paragraph format to indent .75 inch. Thus the info is formatted neatly on the page. I then insert a page break at the last of my text. Once the document that I want to include is in Paint, I use Select All and copy it. I then past it into what is page 2 of my word processor document. I then insert another page break if I will add more pages and repeat the Paint routine. When I have everything in my word processor document, I Print to the Fax, use a cover page and View it in the Fax Viewer before sending the several pages off. Hope this works for you. |
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Faxing from Windows XP Fax Wizard
Hi Rancy. I'm kind of new a computers, so please bare with me. I have read
all of the posts regarding faxing but I'm a little confused. I have been able to fax OK using the Fax Console with the Fax Wizard. My problem is that I have not been able to fax without a Cover Page. I have an All In One Printer A920 by Dell. This is my default printer. When the Fax Wizard comes up it always sends the faxes with a Cover Page. I have looked but I do not see an Option to fax without one. I read the above information where it says " Printing from the Fax Printer always provides the option not to include a Cover Page." Where do I find this option? How is the Fax Printer different from the Default Printer? How can I fax from the Fax Wizard using my Default Printer without a Cover Page? I would really appreciate your help. Amy. "Rancy Snyder" wrote: For IanRoy, To assemble several different documents to send in one fax transmission with XP Fax Console: It is best to convert the files into a .tif file. If you can open them in Paint or some other graphic program, then they should be able to be saved in the .TIF format. If they can't be opened and converted to .tif then this can be accomplished by printing the file to the Fax. When the Fax Wizard comes up, you can enter any name in the to box. DO NOT USE A COVER PAGE. I then type my own phone number into the proper box. If things go wrong, the worse that will happen is that it will try to send the fax to my fax number and it will get a busy signal. If this happens, viola, the file will now be in the Fax Console Outbox in the form of a .tif. View it in the Image and Fax Viewer and copy it to C:\junkfax or whatever you want to call your working fax folder. Right away, rename the file as perhaps doc1.tif. If you don't rename it and leave it in the long name that the Fax Console assigned to it, it might get deleted when you close the Viewer as the Fax Console treats it as a temporary file. If you haven't screwed up and sent the fax by mistake to your own phone number, click to Preview the fax. Then copy it as described above while it is displayed in the Viewer. Also, save the file and rename it as described above. After it is renamed, cancel the fax and now find you 2nd document and go through the same procedure again, perhaps naming the 2nd file as doc2.tif. Once you have 3 or 4 files in your working folder, highlight the files, then right click on them and select PRINT. Fax should be setup as your default printer. Now add your cover page in the fax wizard and in the Viewer you should see your cover page followed by the 2 or 3 other files that you had highlighted. You can now SEND the fax and it should go through with all of the documents. I sometimes do all of this another way if I can get the files into Paint. First I set up my word processor with all page margins of zero. I now have a full page to display a scanned graphic page or .pdf file. I then type in on my word processor the info that would go on a cover sheet. Thus I make up my own cover sheet and save it as a template. After putting in the fields I highlight all of the entries and then use paragraph format to indent .75 inch. Thus the info is formatted neatly on the page. I then insert a page break at the last of my text. Once the document that I want to include is in Paint, I use Select All and copy it. I then past it into what is page 2 of my word processor document. I then insert another page break if I will add more pages and repeat the Paint routine. When I have everything in my word processor document, I Print to the Fax, use a cover page and View it in the Fax Viewer before sending the several pages off. Hope this works for you. |
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