Avaya 9500 Series manual Phone Settings, Naming Your Extension, To change your extension name

8. Phone Settings

8.1 Naming Your Extension

You can assign a name to your extension, up to 20 characters long. The name is then displayed on the phone and also on other extensions when you make or receive calls.

To change your extension name

1.Press the Admin soft key on the display.

∙During a call, press the PHONE button to display the Admin soft key option. If you access phone administration during a call, only the SPEAKER, MUTE and HEADSET buttons still affect the

connected call.

2.Use the up or down arrow buttons to scroll to Telephone Programming. Press Select.

3.Use the up or down arrow buttons to scroll the display to Extension Name. When displayed, press Select.

4.The current setting is displayed. To remove the current name, press Clear.

5.To enter a new name, press Enter and dial the characters using the dial pad buttons. When finished press OK.

∙Enter a character by pressing the indicated button until that character is displayed. Accented versions of the characters are also shown. If you pause more than 1 second after press a button, the cursor will move onto the next space.

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4ghi4

7pqrs7

* *

2abc2

5jkl5

8tuv8

0Space 0

3def3

6mno6

9wxyz9

# #

∙The first character and the first character after a space are automatically capitalized.

∙Use the left and right arrows keys to move the cursor. Press Bksp to delete the character before the cursor.

∙Do not use punctuation characters such as #, ?, /, -, _ and , in the name. Start the name with an alphabetic character. Note that the name is case sensitive and must be unique. Non-English languages do not offer accented characters.

∙Exit phone administration by pressing the PHONE button. Alternatively use the Back button to move to another menu.

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