Advanced Call Handling

Advanced Call Handling

Advanced call-handling tasks involve special features that your system administrator might configure for your phone depending on your call-handling needs and work environment.

Speed Dialing

Speed dialing allows you to enter an index number, press a button, or select a phone screen item to place a call. Depending on configuration, your phone can support several speed-dial features:

Speed-dial buttons

Abbreviated Dialing

Fast Dials

Note

To set up speed-dial buttons and Abbreviated Dial, you must access your User Options

 

 

web pages. See Accessing Your User Options Web Pages, page 66.

 

To set up Fast Dials, you must access the Personal Directory feature. See Using Personal

 

 

Directory on Your Phone, page 63.

 

Alternately, your system administrator can configure speed-dial features for you.

 

 

 

If you want to...

Then...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Use speed-dial

1.

Set up speed-dialbuttons. See the Setting Up Speed Dials on the Web,

 

buttons

 

page 69.

 

 

 

2.

To place a call, press

(a speed-dial button).

 

 

Note If your phone supports the Busy Lamp Field (BLF) speed-dial feature, you can

 

 

see if the speed-dial number is busy before dialing. See Using BLF to

 

 

 

Determine a Line State, page 50.

 

 

 

 

Use Abbreviated

1. Set up Abbreviated Dialing codes. See Setting Up Speed Dials on the Web,

 

Dial

 

page 69.

 

 

 

2.

To place a call, enter the Abbreviated Dialing code and press AbbrDial.

 

 

 

 

Use Fast Dial

1.

Create a Personal Address Book entry and assign a Fast Dials code. See Using

 

 

Personal Directory on the Web, page 67.

 

 

2.

To place a call, access the Fast Dial service on your phone. See Using Personal

 

 

Directory on Your Phone, page 63.

 

 

 

 

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Cisco Systems 7970 Series Advanced Call Handling, Speed Dialing, Web pages. See Accessing Your User Options Web Pages