Using the Voice Mail Service
If you subscribe to a voice mail service, you can use your phone to access your voice mailbox. The new message LED on the handset flashes and appears in the handset display whenever you have messages waiting in your voice mailbox. When you subscribe to the service, your voice mail provider provides you with the access number and the required voice mail signaling tone. You can use your phonebook to store the access number.
Resetting the Voice Message Waiting Indicator
When you receive a new voice mail message, the new message LED on the top of the handset flashes and appears in the handset display. In the event your message alert tone gets out of sync with your phone company’s voice messaging system, you can reset back to its original “no messages waiting” state. To reset, press and hold [find hs] on the base for five seconds. A beep sounds and the message alert tone is reset.
Customizing Your Phone
Changing the Handset Banner
Each handset will display a banner name once it is registered to the base. The default banner is Handset #1, Handset #2, etc. You can change the name your phone displays by changing the banner display. If you have more than one handset, the banner name identifies your handset.
) Press [Menu/Select]. Select the HANDSET SETUP menu, and then the BANNER submenu.
2)Use the keypad to enter or edit the banner name. (See Entering Text from Your Handset on page 11 for detailed instructions on entering text.)
3)Press [Menu/Select]. You will hear a confirmation tone.
Note: When you have multiple bases and even if the handset ID is changed when you switch to a different base, the handset will keep the banner name.
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