Faxfilter not extracting fax number

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>>>>> "Teresa" == Teresa Ray <tcray@speedchoice.com> writes:

    Teresa> Thanks again for the input.  I tried various ways, but I
    Teresa> also found that, on occasion, Word seems to change the
    Teresa> formating, such that I might get: (FA), then (X), then
    Teresa> (N), etc., etc., etc. and Excel seemed to do it even
    Teresa> another way.  I did, however, just now figure out one
    Teresa> fairly easy way to get it working.  If I save the file as
    Teresa> "FAX#939-4202.doc", then the postscript driver puts the
    Teresa> filename in the header, and it's all one string.  Then I
    Teresa> changed the filter you sent to look for "FAX#" instead of
    Teresa> "FAX-Nr:" This works not only in Word, but Excel,
    Teresa> WordPerfect and it seems, any file I send via the Samba
    Teresa> (postscript) printer.

The problem, of course, beinge that if you have 2 faxes queued up to
the same number, the new one will overwrite the old one. :-(

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