How to Write a Fax Message With OpenOffice Or NeoOffice Fax Wizard

OpenOffice (OO) and its Mac-version NeoOffice (NO) are two amazingly powerful and complete office suites and I dare say they are at least as good as the MS Office suite. Also: they are both free! Search for "OpenOffice" and "NeoOffice" on the Google to download them from their respective sites.

Here is how to prepare a fax message by using OO or NO Fax Wizard.

Select the Text Document option from the OO/NO menu to display the word processor.

Select File > Wizards > Fax from the menu to display the Fax Wizard. (Note the Letter, Agenda, Presentation, and Web Page wizards as well!)

Select from one of the following Fax Type options: Business Fax, or Personal Fax.

The Business Fax comes with four Page Design options: Business Fax, Business Fax Personal, Modern Fax, Modern Fax Personal.

The Personal Fax comes with four plain-Jane Page Design options: Bottle, Fax, Lines, Marine.

Once you select your Fax Type and Page Design Style, you click Next to display the...

Items to Include screen allows you to include (or exclude) the following letter elements: Type of Message (the main body of your fax), Salutation, and a Complimentary close.

Click Next and you get the...

The Name and Location screen allows you to attach a name to your template and save it in any file you like on your computer so that you can easily load it up and use it for other letters in the future.

And lastly, after you finish making the right choices for your template, the Fax Wizard asks you how to proceed.

You can then go ahead and create a fax message from the template you've just created or make manual changes to the template. You can for example replace all the icons and images in the template with your own custom-designed logos and images, etc.