Storing FAX numbers in Print dialog

[Salmon Egg]

I often prepare documents I wish to fax in Microsoft Word. I have a
Brother MFC.

To send a fax, I select print to bring up the Print dialog box. On
Copies a& Pages, I select Send Fax. A grayed out window appears that
looks designed to store names and numbers of destinations.

The dialog indicates that output will be for a Printer. My next step is
to change output to Facsimile. The grayed out list appears to become
active, but I cannot figure out how to enter let alone save any
destination information there.

There is a line for entering a destination telephone number. To send the
fax, that number must be "added." While adding this number with a mouse
click does start the faxing process, it gives no asting entry to the
list of destinations.

What to do?

--

Sam

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Liberals are for Darwinism but totally against any selection.

[Patty Winter]

Sam, you don't say what version of Word and Mac OS you're using,
but is it possible that the phone numbers are supposed to come
from Address Book/Contacts? Do you have any fax numbers there?


Patty

[Salmon Egg]

In article <michelle-FC3123...@news.eternal-september.org>,
Michelle Steiner <mich...@michelle.org> wrote:

> In article <SalmonEgg-58904...@news80.forteinc.com>,

> Salmon Egg <Salm...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > There is a line for entering a destination telephone number. To send the
> > fax, that number must be "added." While adding this number with a mouse
> > click does start the faxing process, it gives no asting entry to the
> > list of destinations.
> >
> > What to do?
>

> After I enter the number in the Add box, I clicked on the + icon above it
> (it's to the right of the silhouette of a head and shoulders), and the info
> is added to the recipient list above that.

I am using a Mac Pro with the latest Snow Leopard. I am using Office
2011.

It is not clear to me where the dialog window comes from. That is why I
posted here.

During the process, I get down to the point where I enter a FAX number.
There is a textual Add button that transfers the entered number to the
destination list. More numbers can get added for multiple destinations.
I can send at that stage but cannot save to the destination list. I see
no head. I only see a - button that will remove an address once added to
the destination list.

[Salmon Egg]

In article <michelle-F9CA73...@news.eternal-september.org>,
Michelle Steiner <mich...@michelle.org> wrote:

> Can you upload a screen shot of the dialog and post the link to it here?

I certainly am able to do that. I was under the impression that doing so
would be bad netiquette. I have not seen anything on this newsgroup like
that before.

With the drop in storage cost and time-bandwidth product, that would be
a very useful tool to have.

[Patty Winter]

In article <slrnkpbjs1....@mbp55.local>,
Lewis <g.k...@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>In message <michelle-F9CA73...@news.eternal-september.org>
> Michelle Steiner <mich...@michelle.org> wrote:

[snip]

>> The application doesn't matter; you'll get that same dialog regardless of
>> the application you're using.
>
>Yeah, that's certainly not true. Ever tried to print from Chrome?

Yeah, why does Google do that? (Sorry, that may be a deep, unanswerable
metaphysical question. :-))

At least they have a button you can click to go into the OS X
print dialog, but I didn't see that the first time I wanted to
print from Chrome, so it was confusing. I don't know why they
decided to confuse Mac users by not making the standard dialog
box the default option.


Patty

[Jim Gibson]

In article <51964fde$0$52745$742e...@news.sonic.net>, Patty Winter

Adobe does the same thing. Try printing from Adobe Reader. I actually
prefer the Adobe Reader print dialog over the standard Mac OS X dialog.
It has the common controls in view by default, and you don't have to go
around paging through the drop-down menu looking for what you want to
change.

As for why, I think it comes under the categories of competition and
innovation. Adobe and Google think they can do better. For me, anyway,
Adobe has done better. I don't use Chrome very much, and haven't ever
printed anything from there, so can't comment.

--
Jim Gibson

[nospam]

In article <SalmonEgg-0B427...@news80.forteinc.com>,

Salmon Egg <Salm...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> > Can you upload a screen shot of the dialog and post the link to it here?
>
> I certainly am able to do that. I was under the impression that doing so
> would be bad netiquette. I have not seen anything on this newsgroup like
> that before.

posting a link is not bad etiquette.

embedding the actual image in the post is what's bad etiquette.