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Send a fax long-distance from your office machine routed through Google Voice

Long-distance restrictions are for the birds, assuming your Google Voice number is local.

Where xxx-xxx-xxxx is your number, yyyy is your passcode, and zzz-zzz-zzzz is the number you want to send to:

(9) xxx xxx xxxx P * yyyy P 2 P zzz zzz zzzz #

Drop the 9 if you’re not office folk who need to nine out to the outside line. This also works on any phone that isn’t attached to your Google Voice account, so now make long-distance calls with other people’s phones. (If dialing manually or your fax machine doesn’t let you program pauses, then you pause the old fashioned way by manually dialing and waiting for the prompts.)

BTW, if you want to see how that works for a phone that you do have associated with your Google Voice account, it goes like this:

(9) xxx xxx xxxx P 2 P zzz zzz zzzz #

[This goes in the how-I-get-by-without-a-smartphone department.]

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