Tone

Mute

Telephone Operation

Options while on calls -

Handset and Base

Mute

Press MUTE DELETE to silence the microphone. You will be able to hear the person at the other end, but they will not be able to hear you until you press MUTE DELETE again and resume speaking.

Temporary ringer silencing

Press OFF CLEAR or MUTE DELETE while the phone is ringing to silence the ringer temporarily.

The next phone call will ring normally.

 

NOTE: If you have more than one handset in use, all handsets

 

ring with an incoming call. Press OFF or MUTE on one handset will only

 

silence the ringer of that particular handset but the other handset(s) will

Mute

continue to ring.

 

Temporary tone dialing

If you have pulse dialing (rotary) service, you can switch to touch tone dialing during a call by press- ing *. This can be useful if you need to send tone signals to access answering systems or long dis- tance services.

After you hang up or press FLASH to access ser- vices with your local telephone service provider, the phone automatically returns to pulse dialing (rotary) service.

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