Answering system
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About the answering system
Call screening at the handset
While a message is being recorded, the handset shows,
To screen call...
and
press [SELECT]
. Press
MENU
/SELECT
to screen the call.
Options while a message is being recorded:
f
Press
VOLUME
q
or
VOLUME
p
on the handset to adjust the call
screening volume.
f
Press
OFF/
CANCEL
to temporarily silence the call screening.
f
Press
MENU
/SELECT
to temporarily turn on the call screening if call
screening is set to off.
f
Press
/SPEAKER
to broadcast the announcement and the incoming
message through the speakerphone. Press again to turn off the peakerphone.
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
q
/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.