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Preparation
Hint: Do not tell callers that you are out of town or not home. Instead, say that you cannot come to the phone
right now.
Follow these steps to record your announcement.
1
Press
CHANGE
, then press
ANNC
until the TAD announces “Record
the announcement after the tone. Press
STOP
when you are done.”
2
The message counter displays the length of the announcement in seconds. Your announcement can be up
to three minutes long.
3
Speak your message from about 9 inches in front of the TAD.
4
When you finish, press
STOP
. The TAD beeps and plays back the announcement.
To hear the announcement, press
ANNC
at any time.
AP
(announcement playing) appears and the message
plays.
Changing Your Recorded Announcement
To change your recorded announcement, simply record a new announcement over the existing one.
To delete your recorded announcement and return to the prerecorded an-
nouncement, press
DELETE
while the announcement is playing.
dE
ap-
pears briefly.
REVIEWING THE TAD SETTINGS
To hear all feature settings, press
SET UP
once.
SETTING THE NUMBER OF RINGS
The TAD is preset to sound four rings before it answers the first call. Use ring select to set how many times the
phone rings before the system answers. You can set it for 1 to 7 rings, or to
SA
for Toll-Saver.
To change the ring select setting, press
CHANGE
then repeatedly press
SET UP
until you hear “Number of rings
is …” and follow the voice prompt instructions. Press
STOP
when you are done.
Note: If you plan to check your messages by long distance, set the number of rings to at least four to avoid un-
necessary long distance charges when you call to check your messages (see “Using the Toll-Saver” on
Page 20).
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