Starting and Joining a Standard Conference
A standard conference allows at least three people to participate in a single call. See the table below for details.
If you want to... | Then... |
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Start a standard conference | During a connected call, press Confrn to add another party to the |
call by calling participants | call. (You may need to press the more softkey to see Confrn.) Enter |
| the conference participant’s phone number. After the call connects |
| and you have spoken to the conference participant, press Confrn |
| again to add this party to your call. Repeat to add additional partic- |
| ipants. |
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Invite current callers to join a | With two or more calls on a single line, scroll to highlight any call |
standard conference | on the line and press Select. Repeat this process for each call you |
| want to add to the conference. From one of the selected calls, press |
| Join. (You may need to press the more softkey to see Join.) Note that |
| the active call is selected and added to the conference automatically. |
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Participate in a standard con- | Answer the phone when it rings. You do not need to do anything |
ference | special to participate in a standard conference call. |
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Barge (add yourself to) a call | Highlight a |
on a shared line and turn the | (You may need to press the more softkey to display cBarge.) Other |
call into a standard confer- | parties on the call will hear a barge tone. See the “Using a Shared |
ence call | Line” section on page 31 for details. |
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View a list of conference par- | Highlight an active conference, and press ConfList. Participants are |
ticipants | listed in the order in which they join the conference with the most |
| recent additions at the top. |
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Get an updated list of confer- | While viewing the conference list, press Update. |
ence participants |
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See who started the confer- | While viewing the conference list, locate the person listed at the |
ence | bottom of the list with an asterisk (*) next to the name. |
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Drop the last party added to | Highlight the participant’s name at the top of the conference list and |
the conference | press Remove. (The last participant is always listed at the top of the |
| list.) Or, when not viewing the conference list, press RmLstC. You |
| can remove participants only if you initiated the conference call. |
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