24 2A. Phone Basics
Finding a Phone Number
You can search Contacts for entries by name.
1.
While in Standby Mode, press
CONTACTS
(right
softkey) and enter the first letter or letters of an entry.
(The more letters you enter, the more specific the
search.)
2.
To display an entry, highlight it and press
. To dial
a number, highlight it and press
.
Dialing and Saving Phone Numbers With
Pauses
You can dial or save phone numbers with pauses for
use with automated systems, such as voicemail or credit
card billing numbers.
There are two types of pauses available on your phone:
Hard Pause
sends the next set of numbers when you
press
Send Tones
(left softkey).
2-Second Pause
automatically sends the next set of
numbers after two seconds.
To dial or save phone numbers with pauses:
1.
Enter the phone number.
2.
Press
OPTIONS
(right softkey) >
Hard Pause
or
2-sec Pause
.
3.
Enter additional numbers.
4.
Press
to dial the number.
– or –
To save the number in your Contacts list, press
OPTIONS
(right softkey), highlight
Save,
and
press
.
Abbreviated Dialing
Abbreviated dialing lets you prepend the first five or six
digits (for example, the area code and prefix) to any four
or five digits you enter. (See “Setting Abbreviated
Dialing” on page 42.)
To place a call using abbreviated dialing:
Enter the last four or five digits of the number and
press
.
Note
You can have multiple pauses in a phone number
and combine 2-second and hard pauses.
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