Answering system
About the answering system
New message indication
The message window on the telephone base flashes and 
shows on the handset when there are new answering system messages.
If the new message alert tone is turned on, the telephone base |
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beeps every 10 seconds when there are unreviewed messages. |
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NOTE: If the answering system has less than five minutes of recording |
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time left, the remaining time is announced. | 10:21AM 11/13 | ||
Call screening at the telephone base
If the answering system is on and the telephone base volume is not off (set to 1 or higher), you hear the announcement and the incoming message when a call comes in. If you want the telephone base to be silent while recording messages, make sure the telephone base volume is set to 0.
Call intercept
While screening a call, you can stop recording and speak to the caller by pressing 
PHONE/FLASH or 
SPEAKER on the handset.
Base ringer
Press VOLUMEpq on the telephone base to adjust the ringer volume when the telephone is not in use.
A sample of the ringer sounds as you adjust the volume. The telephone base announces, “Base ringer is off.” when you set the volume to 0.
Temporarily turning off the message alert tone
Pressing any telephone base key (except 
HANDSET LOCATOR) temporarily silences the message alert tone.
If you press 
DELETE when in idle mode, there is a voice prompt to direct you to press 
DELETE again to delete all old messages, and the message alert tone is temporarily silenced.
The message alert tone is
Voice prompts
The system provides voice prompts to guide you through remote access and recording outgoing announcements.
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