button to open up MS Fax & inserts contacts fax number from form

[fspc]

Hi anyone and everyone..

I have a simple contacts form, Name, address, telephone no and fax number.

I want to click a button that activates XP's built in fax program and for it to automatically include my contacts fax number from my form. Is this possible?

At the moment, I successfully send word documents and access reports by selecting my printer MS Fax. But i have to always enter my recipient from my Windows address book dialogue which comes up or the dialogue that access throws up. All my contacts are in my database and i would like the fax program or access to see the fax number of the contact i am currenly in and launch the fax program or access to have my recipient and their fax number already in the To: line either when i click a button.

Is this possible?
regards to all
freespirit

 

[Montemontgo]

now, fspc, this sounds exactly like my problem. In a form I need a button which opens a external program (picture viewer - easy so far) and retrieves the filename to open in this viewer from a field in the form (here I'm stuck) Now some experts have given me clues how to do it but as I'm not experienced with programming I should need the full code of such a command button. Let's join ...