Reviewing Sent and Received Faxes

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Sent and received faxes are stored as .tif files, which are associated by default with Imaging, the application described in Chapter 37. You can use Imaging to print or annotate your faxes or to bundle two or more faxes together into a single document. Imaging's thumbnails view makes it easy to navigate multipage fax documents. For details, see Chapter 37 "Manipulating Faxes and Images with Imaging."

If you haven't changed the fax service's default archiving and routing parameters, you can review your sent and received faxes by opening the Start menu and choosing Programs, Accessories, Communications, Fax, My Faxes. My Faxes contains subfolders named Received Faxes and Sent Faxes, and therein you'll find your received and sent items, each with an unlovely system-provided name, such as 7a7626f800.tif.

The names might not provide much useful information, but Sent Faxes and Received Faxes have special columns that are informative: Name, Transmitted By, Sender Name, Caller ID, Routing, Recipient Name, Recipient Number, Transmission Time, and Subject. Be sure to use Details view for these folders so you can tell which fax is which. (Thumbnails view isn't available in the Sent Faxes and Received Faxes folders.)