USING THE ANSWERING SYSTEM
Answering System Options
You can set or change the answering system options from any handset. Just
open the menu and select
Enter a 2-digit PIN so you can access your answering
Security Code
system from any touch-tone phone (see p. 15).
Set the number of rings (2, 4, or 6) before the system
Ring Time
answers.
if you have new messages or after 4 rings if you don't.
Set the amount of time
Record Time
leave a message. Choose
want the system to let callers to leave a message.
Have the system beep every 15 seconds when you have
Message Alert
a new message. The alert stops after you listen to all
your new messages or if you press any key on the base.
Ans. Language
Change the language of the system's voice prompts.
Turn on the call screen feature so you can hear callers as
Call Screen
they leave messages on the base speaker (see p. 15).
Ans. On/off
Turn your answering system on or off.
Record Greeting
Record an outgoing message or greeting (see below).
Greeting Options
Switch greetings or delete your greeting (see below).
Personalizing the Greeting
Your personal outgoing message or greeting can be from 2 to 30 seconds
long. If you don't record a greeting, the system uses a pre-recorded
greeting: Hello, no one is available to take your call. Please leave a message
after the tone.
To...
Follow these steps:
1.
Open the menu with the phone in standby. Select
Setup, then
2.
Press
Record a
says "Record greeting" before speaking.
personal
3.
Press
greeting
your new greeting.
4.
To keep the greeting, press
MEnu/sElEcT
(Ans.
Ans.
Setup. Select one of the following:
Toll Saver
makes the system answer after 2 rings
(1 or 4
Record
Greeting.
MEnu/sElEcT
to start recording. Wait until the system
MEnu/sElEcT
to stop recording. The system plays back
.
Setup)
minutes) callers have to
Announce Only
if you don't
End
. To re-record it, press
Ans.
1