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Tips & Tutorials
Douglas Smith
There are dozens of useful features included with COMMUNICATE! PRO, all geared to make life easier for you in your small business, large business, or just sitting back at home contacting a friend or relative. Just take a look at some of the many things that you can do with this program, and you will see why it is so fondly called the Swiss army knife of programs.
Telephone Answer & Speakerphone
· Unlimited number of password-protected voice mailboxes
· Call screening, conversation recording, speakerphone
· Caller ID support
· Distinctive Ring support
· CallAnswerTM Wizard - personalized messages based on Time of Day, day of Week, Distinctive Ring, Caller ID, or all combined!
· Pager Dispatching - automatically broadcast pager messages
· Up to 40 speed dial entries for quick calls
· Music-on-hold
Fax
· Schedule, modify or delete outbound faxes
· Use built-in Contact Manager to broadcast an unlimited number of faxes
· Re-send and re-queue capabilities
· Fax back and Fax-on-Demand
· Optional OCR (Optical Character Recognition) converts faxes to text
· Send faxes from within any Windows application
· View and edit faxes and graphic files down to the pixel level with built-in graphics and fax-cover page editor/annotator
· Over 40 graphic file formats supported
· Scan Fax from any TWAIN compatible scanner
Internet Phone, E-mail & Browsing
· Call other users worldwide via the Internet and save on long distance charges
· Record and play back Internet phone conversations
· Full or half duplex sound card support
· Text-based chat mode
· Send and receive Internet e-mail
· Launch a we browser as needed from a contact record
Contact Management
· Powerful, built-in Contact Manager
· Unlimited number of phone books and contacts per phone book
· Over 100 pre-defined and 10 custom fields
· Import .DBF files or existing phone books from WinFax Pro and ACT! 2.0/3.0 for Windows
· Hot-list feature reminds you of scheduled events
· One click initiates voice, fax, data, e-mail or Internet phone calls
· Broadcast fax, e-mail, voice and pager messages to an unlimited number of recipients
· Distinguishes between local and long-distance telephone numbers, even with the same area code
Data Communications
· Supports popular file transfer protocols
· Unattended mini-BBS capability with user passwords, greetings, dial-back and call logging
· Auto-Learn records dial-in commands
· Support for most popular file transfer protocols including X (-1K, 1KG), Y (-G), ZMODEM, ASCII, CompuServe B+ and Kermit
· ANSI and TTY terminal emulations
Remote Management
· Listen and manage new voice messages
· Pager and telephone notification of new fax, e-mail and voice messages
· Manage mailboxes, passwords, greetings, CallAnswerTM and administrative options
· Retrieve and forward faxes to your location
Comprehensive Call Logging
· Universal in-box automatically logs all inbound and outbound voice, fax, data, e-mail and Internet phone messages
· Resubmit unsuccessful broadcast jobs to queue
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