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Author: TonyB
Date: Jun 20, 2007 10:46

At home I use Outlook 2002 SP3 under Windows XP Professional SP2 on a Dell
8200 PC. Broadband internet access is via a BT Home Hub, and as this does not
use a modem I removed the card to make room for another. At work I always
used the auto-dialling facility in Outlook for making voice calls, and having
now retired and copied all my Outlook contacts to home, I want to continue
the auto-dialling.
BT say their Home Hub is only a router, not a modem, so cannot dial. I
therefore bought a Zoom V92 External USB Faxmodem and connected it between
another provider's (NTL) phone socket (doubled with a phone instrument) and a
USB port on the PC, but when I tell Outlook to dial a contact it says "Call
cannot be completed as dialled". Clicking Line Properties gives "An Internal
Error occurred...
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Re: Voice Autodialling Contacts with external modem         


Author: TonyB
Date: Jun 23, 2007 17:53

Mnay thanks to you both. I've just searched the Windows discussions and
nothing helpful; will try Zoom again to see if their USB modem driver
supports voice.
Tony.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
> Again, you have a Windows question, not an Outlook question. I have no idea
> whether the Windows dialer supports USB modems. I suspect it does not.
> --
> Russ Valentine
> [MVP-Outlook]
> "TonyB"...
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