Mitel
®
8560/8660 Phone User Guide – Issue 15, February 2011
Page 11
Personalizing Your Phone
Using the Dialpad Buttons to Enter Characters
You can use the dialpad buttons to enter text or numbers for features such as Do-Not-Disturb
(see
) and Station Speed Dial (see
The following are guidelines when entering dialpad characters:
Press (Message) to switch from Alpha Mode to Numeric Mode. The
MSG
button stays lit in
Alpha Mode. It is off in Numeric Mode.
Press the
MUTE
button to move the cursor to the left and delete characters.
Press the
FWD
button to
move the cursor to the right.
In Numeric Mode, press
#
for a hyphen (-).
In Numeric Mode, press
*
for a colon (:).
Press
(Speaker), or lift and replace the handset to save entries.
To use the dialpad to enter characters:
Press the dialpad buttons as shown in the following table.
For example, to enter
May 31
, you could use the following sequence:
1. In Alpha Mode (
MSG
button is lit), press
6
once to enter an “M.”
2. Press
2
once to enter an “A.”
3. Press
9
three times to enter a “Y.”
4. Press
FWD
to enter a space.
5. Press
MSG
to switch to Numeric Mode.
6. Press
3
.
7. Press
1
.
8. Press
(Speaker),
#
, or lift the handset to save the entry.
Dialpad Characters — American English and British English
Number of Times Dialpad Button is Pressed
Button
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
1
:
-
/
,
.
;
(
)
&
+
*
!
?
#
1
2
A
B
C
2
a
b
c
3
D
E
F
3
d
e
f
4
G
H
I
4
g
h
i
5
J
K
L
5
j
k
l
6
M
N
O
6
m
n
o
7
P
Q
R
S
7
p
q
r
s
8
T
U
V
8
t
u
v
9
W
X
Y
Z
9
w
x
y
z
0
0
