Vista - Recipient company feild for WSF coverpages

Ho do I insert a field for recipients company in WFS cover page editor?

Only two feild options appear for me in cover page editor under the
Insert/Recipient menu - Recipient Name, and Recipient Number.

This must be possible - it would have to be a pretty fundamental omission!

Who would ever address a fax to someone in a company without also showing
at least the recipients company name ? Or vica versa, who would send fax to
company name, without specifying the specific recipient?

Not a very professional look & no obvious way for an unintended recipient/
organization to tell whether the fax has been sent to wrong number if fax has
only a single contact field to go on!



I am sure

You can insert any text box you want on a custom cover page. If you want an
autopopulated field, there are no other options for that.
It is worthwhile remembering that WFS is still just a simple fax program
developed for home use, not business use. That was the target audience for
which it was developed, and the developers did a very good job of improving
it for that audience. That's what makes it so ironic that the marketers at
Microsoft pulled the app from its target audience and made it available only
to the group that has little to no use for it.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"ArchPrime" <ArchPrime@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:67248F2C-E8F3-48C2-8452-87BF71C1CEC5@microsoft.com...
> Ho do I insert a field for recipients company in WFS cover page editor?
>
> Only two feild options appear for me in cover page editor under the
> Insert/Recipient menu - Recipient Name, and Recipient Number.
>
> This must be possible - it would have to be a pretty fundamental omission!
>
> Who would ever address a fax to someone in a company without also showing
> at least the recipients company name ? Or vica versa, who would send fax
> to
> company name, without specifying the specific recipient?
>
> Not a very professional look & no obvious way for an unintended
> recipient/
> organization to tell whether the fax has been sent to wrong number if fax
> has
> only a single contact field to go on!
>
>
>
> I am sure
>
>

Hi - thanks for that

(sigh) Looks like I will have to follow the crowd over to Snappy Fax (which
also seems to largely solve the inability to see the Outlook address book
issue for 64 bit Vista users)

Cheers

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

> You can insert any text box you want on a custom cover page. If you want an
> autopopulated field, there are no other options for that.
> It is worthwhile remembering that WFS is still just a simple fax program
> developed for home use, not business use. That was the target audience for
> which it was developed, and the developers did a very good job of improving
> it for that audience. That's what makes it so ironic that the marketers at
> Microsoft pulled the app from its target audience and made it available only
> to the group that has little to no use for it.
> --
> Russ Valentine
> [MVP-Outlook]
> "ArchPrime" <ArchPrime@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:67248F2C-E8F3-48C2-8452-87BF71C1CEC5@microsoft.com...
> > Ho do I insert a field for recipients company in WFS cover page editor?
> >
> > Only two feild options appear for me in cover page editor under the
> > Insert/Recipient menu - Recipient Name, and Recipient Number.
> >
> > This must be possible - it would have to be a pretty fundamental omission!
> >
> > Who would ever address a fax to someone in a company without also showing
> > at least the recipients company name ? Or vica versa, who would send fax
> > to
> > company name, without specifying the specific recipient?
> >
> > Not a very professional look & no obvious way for an unintended
> > recipient/
> > organization to tell whether the fax has been sent to wrong number if fax
> > has
> > only a single contact field to go on!
> >
> >
> >
> > I am sure
> >
> >
>

If you do, I'd be interested to know what features Snappy Fax provides that
WFS does not. I don't have time to play with third party apps, but I am
interested in whether there is actually anyone out there that can fill the
void the marketing geniuses at Microsoft have created.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"ArchPrime" <ArchPrime@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news51AD7EA-79D0-44F1-BCBA-74209308265D@microsoft.com...
> Hi - thanks for that
>
> (sigh) Looks like I will have to follow the crowd over to Snappy Fax
> (which
> also seems to largely solve the inability to see the Outlook address book
> issue for 64 bit Vista users)
>
> Cheers
>
> "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
>
>> You can insert any text box you want on a custom cover page. If you want
>> an
>> autopopulated field, there are no other options for that.
>> It is worthwhile remembering that WFS is still just a simple fax program
>> developed for home use, not business use. That was the target audience
>> for
>> which it was developed, and the developers did a very good job of
>> improving
>> it for that audience. That's what makes it so ironic that the marketers
>> at
>> Microsoft pulled the app from its target audience and made it available
>> only
>> to the group that has little to no use for it.
>> --
>> Russ Valentine
>> [MVP-Outlook]
>> "ArchPrime" <ArchPrime@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:67248F2C-E8F3-48C2-8452-87BF71C1CEC5@microsoft.com...
>> > Ho do I insert a field for recipients company in WFS cover page editor?
>> >
>> > Only two feild options appear for me in cover page editor under the
>> > Insert/Recipient menu - Recipient Name, and Recipient Number.
>> >
>> > This must be possible - it would have to be a pretty fundamental
>> > omission!
>> >
>> > Who would ever address a fax to someone in a company without also
>> > showing
>> > at least the recipients company name ? Or vica versa, who would send
>> > fax
>> > to
>> > company name, without specifying the specific recipient?
>> >
>> > Not a very professional look & no obvious way for an unintended
>> > recipient/
>> > organization to tell whether the fax has been sent to wrong number if
>> > fax
>> > has
>> > only a single contact field to go on!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I am sure
>> >
>> >
>>