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Answering System Operation

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Basic Operation Answering System Operation At The Base Audible Indicators This system gives you voice prompts for feature operations and voice confirmations when you press a button or complete an operation. Setting Day/Time 1. Make sure the answering system is on. 2. Press TIME/SET. The system announces the clock setting, then announces: “To Set Day and Time, press TIME/SET.” 3. Press TIME/SET. 4. Press SELECT until the system announces the correct day, then press TIME/SET. 5. Press SELECT until the system announces the correct hour, then press TIME/SET. 6. Press SELECT until the system announces the correct minute, then press TIME/SET. The system announces the current clock setting. Note: To advance the minutes by 10, press and hold SELECT. About Mailboxes This answering system has three voice mailboxes. Callers using a touch tone phone can select the mailbox in which their messages will be recorded by pressing 1, 2 or 3. Otherwise, messages will be recorded in Mailbox 1. About Announcements • You can record two different announcements — one for normal answering and one for when you’ve set the system to play the announcement only. • Use normal answering when you want the system to record callers’ messages. Use Announce Only when you want to give information to callers without accepting messages. • If you choose not to record an announcement, the system answers with a pre-recorded announcement. • The normal answering pre-recorded announcement says: “Hello. I’m unable to answer your call right now. Please leave your name, number and a message after the tone.” The Announce Only pre-recorded announcement says: “Hello, I’m unable to answer your call right now. Please call again. Thank you.” • By setting Announce Only to ON or OFF, you decide which announcement your callers will hear when the system answers a call (the system comes set for normal answering , with Announce Only turned off). See “Set Announce Only” , located in the Feature Summary chart later in this section, to change your announcement selection. 22

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Basic Operation
Audible Indicators
This system gives you voice prompts for feature operations and voice
confirmations when you press a button or complete an operation.
Setting Day/Time
1.
Make sure the answering system is on.
2.
Press
TIME/SET
. The system announces the clock setting, then announces:
±To Set Day and Time, press
TIME/SET
.
²
3.
Press
TIME/SET
.
4.
Press
SELECT
until the system announces the correct day, then press
TIME/SET
.
5.
Press
SELECT
until the system announces the correct hour, then
press
TIME/SET
.
6.
Press
SELECT
until the system announces the correct minute, then
press
TIME/SET
.
The system announces the current clock setting.
Note:
To advance the minutes by 10, press and hold
SELECT
.
About Mailboxes
This
answering
system has three voice mailboxes. Callers using a touch tone
phone can select the mailbox in which their messages will be recorded
by pressing
1
,
2
or
3
.
Otherwise, messages will be recorded in Mailbox 1.
About Announcements
²
You can record
two different announcements
³
one for normal answering
and one for when you
±
ve
set the system to play the announcement only.
²
Use normal answering when you want the system to record callers
±
messages. Use Announce Only when you want to give information to
callers without accepting messages.
²
If you choose not to record an announcement, the system answers with a
pre-recorded announcement.
²
The normal answering pre-recorded announcement says:
´
Hello. I
±
m unable
to answer your call right
now.
Please leave your name, number and a
message after the tone.
²
The
Announce Only
pre-recorded
announcement says:
´
Hello, I
±
m unable to answer your call right now.
Please call again. Thank you.
²
²
By setting
Announce Only
to
ON
or
OFF
, you decide which announcement your
callers will hear when the system answers a call (the system comes set for
normal answering , with Announce Only turned
off
). See
´
Set Announce
Only
²
, located in the
Feature Summary
chart later in this section, to change
your announcement selection.
Answering System Operation
At The Base