Accessing Your Answering System, Screening Calls

Accessing Your Answering System

If your base has an answering system, you can use your handset to get your messages and change your answering system setup. The answering system plays your new messages (that you have not listened to yet) first. If you have no new messages, the system plays your old messages.

You have the following options:

Playing	Press [		/mute]. The system announces the number of
	new and old messages, then plays the first new message
new	followed by the day and time it was received. Then the
messages	system plays the new messages in the order they were
	received.
Repeating	Press [1/		] once to go to the beginning of the current
	message.
a message	Press [		] repeatedly to go back to a previous message.
	1/
Skipping a	Press [3/		] to go to the beginning of the next message.
message
Deleting a	While a message is playing, press [4/			].
message	The message is permanently deleted.
Playing old	After you listen to your new messages, press [ /mute]
messages	again to play your old messages.
Exiting the	Press [5/		] to stop the message playback.
message	Press [	] to exit the system and return to standby,


review	or press [2/ ] to restart the message playback.

Screening Calls

If your base has an answering system, you can listen to callers as they leave a message. Press [ /mute] when the system is answering to listen to the caller without answering the phone.