Switching an In-Progress Call to Another Phone

You can switch in-progress calls between the desktop phone and your cellular phone or other remote destination.

If you want to...

Then...

 

 

 

 

Switch an in-progress

1.

Press the Mobility softkey and select Send call to mobile.

call on your desktop

2.

Answer the in-progress call on your cellular phone.

phone to a cellular

 

The desktop phone line button turns red

and handset icons and

phone

 

 

the calling party number appear on the phone display. You cannot use

 

 

 

 

same phone line for any other calls, but if your desk phone supports

 

 

multiple lines, you can use another line to make or receive calls.

 

 

 

Switch an in-progress

1.

Hang up the call on your cellular phone to disconnect the cellular

call from a cellular

 

phone, but not the call.

 

phone to your desktop

2.

Press Resume on your desk phone within 4 seconds and start talking

phone

 

on the desk phone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Viewing Multiple Calls

Understanding how multiple calls are displayed on your phone can help you organize your call-handling efforts.

In standard viewing mode, your phone displays calls as follows for the highlighted line:

Calls with the highest precedence and longest duration display at the top of the list.

Calls of a similar type are grouped together. For example, calls that you have interacted with are grouped near the top, and calls on hold are grouped last.

You can use these additional methods to view multiple calls on multiple lines:

If you want to...

Then...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

View calls on another

1. Press

.

 

 

line

2. Immediately press the line button

.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Switch to call overview

Press

for the highlighted line.

 

 

mode

The phone switches to call overview mode, displaying one call per line. The

 

 

displayed call is either the active call or the held call with the longest

 

duration.

 

 

 

 

To return to standard viewing mode, press

, then immediately press the

 

line button.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cisco Systems 7961G/7961G-GE, 7941G/7941G-GE manual Switching an In-Progress Call to Another Phone, Viewing Multiple Calls

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