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

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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 55.

 

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

 

 

Directory on Your Phone, page 51.

 

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

 

 

 

If you want to...

Then...

 

 

 

 

Use speed-dial

1.

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

buttons

 

page 58.

 

 

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 38.

 

 

Use Abbreviated

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

Dial

 

page 58.

 

 

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 56.

 

2.

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

 

 

Directory on Your Phone, page 51.

 

 

 

 

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