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Answering system
About the answering system
Call screening at the handset
If the answering system is on, you can hear the announcement and the
incoming message with the handset when a call is answered by the answering
system. While a message is being recorded, the handset shows
To screen call,
press [SELECT]
. Press
MENU
/SELECT
to screen the call.
Call intercept
While screening a call, you can stop recording and speak to the caller by
pressing
PHONE/
FLASH
on the handset.
Base ringer
Press
VOL
q
or
VOL
p
on the telephone base to adjust the ringer volume
when the telephone is not in use.
You hear a sample of the ringer while adjusting the volume. The telephone
base announces,
“Base ringer is off,”
when you set the volume to
0
.
Temporarily turning off the message alert tone
If the new message alert tone is turned on, the telephone base beeps every
10 seconds when there are new or missed messages. Pressing any telephone
base key (except /
HANDSET LOCATOR
) temporarily silences the message
alert tone.
If you press
X/DELETE
when in idle mode to temporarily turn off the
message alert tone, there is a voice prompt directing you to press
X/DELETE
again to delete all old messages. The message alert tone is temporarily off.
Only press
X/DELETE
a second time if you wish to erase all old messages in
your answering system.
The message alert tone resumes when you receive another message.
