GE 21098GE3 User Guide - Page 57

Screening Calls from the Handset, Accessing the Answering System from Another, Location, Memory Full

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Screening Calls from the Handset Use the handset to screen calls even when you can't hear the answering system. When the answering system picks up: 1. Press the SELECT button to access the answering system. 2. Listen as the caller leaves a message. 3. Press the TALK/END/call back or SPKR buttons to speak to the person or press the SELECT button to stop screening the call. Accessing the Answering System from Another Location You can access your answering system from any touch-tone phone by entering your 3-digit security code during the playing of outgoing announcement or after you hear the outgoing announcement. 1. Dial the telephone number to which the answering system is connected. 2. Enter the security code during the outgoing announcement or after you hear the tone. 3. Follow the voice menu to use the answering system's remote functions. The remote feature lets you perform the following functions: To Press this button Review message Play back messages Select mailbox Stop message playback Erase message Skip message Turn off/on answerer Review voice menu options 1 2 1 or 2 or 3 2 0 (during message playback) 3 4 7 Memory Full When answering system memory is full, the system answers after 10 rings, beeps and waits for you to enter the 3-digit security code. If you don't enter the security code within 8 seconds, the phone hangs up. 57

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Screening Calls from the Handset
Use the handset to screen calls even when you can’t hear the answering
system.
When the answering system picks up:
1. Press the SELECT button to access the answering system.
2. Listen as the caller leaves a message.
3. Press the TALK/END/call back or SPKR buttons to speak to the person or
press the SELECT button to stop screening the call.
Accessing the Answering System from Another
Location
You can access your answering system from any touch-tone phone
by entering your 3-digit security code during the playing of outgoing
announcement or after you hear the outgoing announcement.
1. Dial the telephone number to which the answering system is connected.
2.
Enter the security code during the outgoing announcement or after you
hear the tone.
3.
Follow the voice menu to use the answering system’s remote functions.
The remote feature lets you perform the following functions:
To
Press this button
Review message
1
Play back messages
2
Select mailbox
1 or 2 or 3
Stop message playback
2
Erase message
0 (during message playback)
Skip message
3
Turn off/on answerer
4
Review voice menu options
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Memory Full
When answering system memory is full, the system answers after 10 rings,
beeps and waits for you to enter the 3-digit security code. If you don’t enter
the security code within 8 seconds, the phone hangs up.