Ray, both xp and vista have a microsoft fax printer driver available for installation. You just choose Microsoft as the printer manufacturer when you start to install a new printer, just as you normally would, and one of your choices will be the fax driver.
hth, Chip ------------------------------ Chip Orange Database Administrator Florida Public Service Commission [email protected] (850) 413-6314 (Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.) > -----Original Message----- > From: Ray Campbell [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 5:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Seeking tool for Faxing from within MS Word > > Hello All: > > Before we upgraded to our Toshiba computer with Windows Vista, we had > something called Classic Phone Tools on our XP machine. What > I used it > for was to fax documents from within word. I could hit > ctrl-P, select a > printer named 'fax' and send what I wanted to it with a wizzard coming > up assking for the party's name, fax number, ETC. > > This Toshiba doesn't have Classic Phone Tools on it, so I want to know > where the best place is to get this tool for Vista? Or, is there > another fax program that works on Vista that you know of which is > Window-Eyes friendly and will let me fax things just as easily? > > Thanks, > > > > Ray Campbell, Help Desk Technician > Adaptive Technology Center > Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired > 1850 W. Roosevelt Road > Chicago, IL 60608 > 312-997-3651 (Voice/Relay) or > 888-825-0080 (voice/Relay) > [email protected] > AIM Screen Name: tclhelp > www.thechicagolighthouse.org > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original > sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and > your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending > your message to [email protected] so the entire list will > receive it. > > All GW-Info messages are archived at > http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through > and sorted using the search > form at the bottom of the page. > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body > of the message. > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
