Using your Freestyle 1200 answering machine
Answer delay
You can adjust the number of times your Freestyle 1200 will ring before the answering machine takes the call. The original setting is for 6 rings. You can change this to any number of rings between 2 and 9 or to TIME SAVER.
Time Saver is used to save you time and the cost of a phone call when ringing your machine from another phone to pick up your messages. Your Freestyle 1200 answers after 2 rings if you have new messages or after 6 rings if you don’t. So you can choose to hang up if you hear more than 2 rings.
To set the answer delay
•Press and hold down the ♣♣ button. The machine announces the current setting and then starts giving you the alternative settings.
•Release the ♣♣ button when the setting you want is announced. the machine then confirms the setting. For example, if you select Time Saver, you will hear: “Answer delay: Time Saver”, or for 6 rings, “Calls will be answered after 6 rings.”
Call screening and intercept
When the answering machine is switched on, you can listen to a caller leaving their message over the loudspeaker.
SCREEN
You can also listen at the handset by pressing the SCREEN button. Press the TALK button on the handset to interrupt the call and speak to the caller.
Adjusting the speaker volume
The volume level ranges from 0 to H, where 0 is the lowest volume and H the maximum. The display shows the level when you press the VOLUME button.
To adjust the loudspeaker volume
VOLUME
•Press the large speaker on the VOLUME button to raise the sound level. You hear a beep increasing in volume as you continue to press the volume button.
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