Personalizing Your Phone
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Using the Dialpad Buttons to Enter Characters
You can use the dialpad buttons to enter text or numbers for features such as Do-Not-Disturb
(see page 83) and Station Speed Dial (see page48).
The following are guidelines when entering dialpad characters:
• Press (Message) to switch from Alpha Mode to Numeric Mode. The (Message)
button stays lit in Alpha Mode and is off in Numeric Mode.
• Press (Hold) to move the cursor to the left and delete characters.
•Press (Transfer) to move the cursor to the right.
• In Numeric Mode, press # for a hyphen (-).
• In Numeric Mode, press * for a colon (:).
• Press #, (Speaker), or lift and replace the handset to save entries.
To use the dialpad to enter characters:
Press the dialpad buttons as shown in the following table.
For example, to enter May 31, you could use the following sequence:
1. In Alpha Mode ( [Message] button is lit), press 6 once to enter an “M.”
2. Press 2 five times to enter an “a.”
3. Press 9 eight times to enter a “y.”
4. Press (Transfer) to enter a space.
5. Press (Message) to switch to Numeric Mode.
Dialpad Characters — American English and British English
Number of Times Dialpad Button is Pressed
Button 12345678910 11 12 13 14 15
1:-/,.;()&+*!?#1
2ABC2abc
3DEF3def
4GHI4ghi
5JKL5j k l
6MNO6m n o
7PQRS7pqrs
8TUV8t u v
9WXYZ9wxyz
00