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SYMPTOMSWhen you send a fax from Microsoft Excel with Microsoft At Work PC Fax by choosing Send Mail from the File menu, you may receive one of the following error messages:
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-or- NOTE: This problem does not occur with other Microsoft Office applications. CAUSEWhen you send mail from an application and address the message to a FAX recipient, Microsoft Mail calls the application associated with the attached document to render (print) the document to generate the final .DCX output file. Because Microsoft Excel does not support having two copies of the same document open simultaneously, you receive one of the errors noted above. WORKAROUND
To work around this problem in Microsoft Excel 5.0:
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When you choose the File Send command, Microsoft Excel embeds the active
sheet in a mail message. The embedded object uses the name of the active
sheet and is given the extension .XLS. When the message is ready to be
faxed, Microsoft Mail activates the object. Upon activation, the embedded
sheet is copied to the TEMP directory and Microsoft Excel is told to open
it. After the file is opened, a Print command is sent to Microsoft Excel,
and the file is printed to the fax port.
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