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S
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To screen calls, let the system answer and listen to the
caller’s message through the answering system’s speaker.
If you decide to answer the call, pick up any phone
connected to the same phone line as the system. The
system stops recording and resets to answer the next
call.
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• If you pick up the phone just as the system answers,
the system might not stop playing the outgoing
message. Press
STOP
, or press the switchhook on your
phone, to stop the outgoing message.
• If you do not want to take the call, let the system finish
recording the caller’s message.
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ONVERSATIONS
When the system has recorded one or more new
messages, the
PLAY
LED flashes.
To Listen to New Messages
1. Press
PLAY
once to play the messages.
New:XX
and
Total:XX
appear briefly on the voice messages counter.
2. The system plays all the new messages.
To Listen to Saved Messages
After all new messages finish playing, press
PLAY
again. All
saved messages are played, one after the other.
After playing each message, the system announces the day
and time the message was recorded. After you play the
voice messages, the system automatically resets to answer
calls. The
PLAY
LED lights.
• If the system beeps twice after you press
PLAY
, there
are no messages.
• To repeat the current message, press
TIME CHECK/
REPEAT
.
• To review the previous message, hold down
TIME
CHECK/REPEAT
briefly.
• To skip forward to the next message, press
TIME SET/
SKIP
.
• To stop playing any message at any time, press
STOP
.
• While you are playing an incoming message, the
attached CID information appears.
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NOTE
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Be sure MESSAGE VOLUME is
set to an appropriate level so you
can hear the incoming caller’s
message.
