Friday 2 November 2012

Internet Fax Using Office 2010


Cloud Faxing is most comfortable and popular way of sharing documents now-a-days. This has improvised the way facsimiles were sent earlier. Considering the regular need of faxing there are many companies who started providing this facility. The service is charged depending upon the package chosen by the customer. The organizations need facsimiles transmission regularly. Considering this requirement Microsoft has also extended this facility to user. It has extended this feature in Office 2010 which allows Outlook,  Word, Excel and PowerPoint files as to be transmitted as online facsimiles.

This feature is disabled for all versions of Windows by default. To utilize this feature it is necessary to enable it. This requires installing proper drivers for same. The drivers that must be installed for same are known as Windows Fax drivers. This feature can be enabled on Windows home edition of XP onwards version. For Server edition Windows, it is available on version Windows Server2003 and Windows Server 2008.

The feature is activated only after certain setting made in Control Panel. There are different ways of activating the service. These different ways are applicable on different versions of operating system. Every version require to manage setting using Control Panel. Here user requires modifying setting in Add/Remove Programs or in Programs and Features for Home Editions. The Server Operating System needs to add a role of Fax Server to host and utilize the service.

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