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Answering system
Answering system settings
To delete your announcement:
Follow Steps 1-4 in
To play the current announcement
on page
39
to play the announcement.
Press
3
during playback to delete your recorded
announcement. The system announces,
“
Announcement deleted
.”
If your announcement is deleted, calls are answered with the default
announcement, “
Hello. Please leave a message after the tone
.”
Answer on/off
Unless you change it, the answering system is on and ready to record
messages. If the answering system is on, the
ANs
ON
icon displays on the
handset screen and the
/ANs. ON/OFF
light on the telephone base is
on. You can turn the answering system off, but if you do so, the answering
system does not answer calls and record incoming messages.
using the handset:
Press
mENu/
sELECT
in idle mode to enter the main menu.
Press
CID
or
DIr
to scroll to
>ANsWErING sys
, then press
mENu
/sELECT
.
Press
CID
or
DIr
to scroll to
>ANsWEr ON/OFF
, then
press
mENu
/sELECT
.
Press
CID
or
DIr
to select between
>ON
and
>OFF
, then press
mENu
/sELECT
to save the setting. A
confirmation tone sounds.
using the telephone base:
Press
/ANs. ON/OFF
to turn the
answering
system on or off. If the answering system is turned
on, it announces, “
Calls will be answered
.” If the
answering system is turned off, it announces, “
Calls
will not be answered
.”
notes:
If the answering system is off and there is an incoming call, the system answers after 10 rings
and announces to the caller, “
Please enter your remote access code
.” For more information
about remote access, see
remote access code
on page 42.
You can turn the answering system on or off from either the handset or the telephone base,
but you can only use the handset to change the other answering system settings.
You cannot turn the answering system on or off while a handset is on a call or the telephone
base is playing messages.
During an incoming call, press
/ANs. ON/OFF
to turn the answering system on or off.
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ANSWER ON/OFF
>ON