Panasonic KX-TG2386 Automatic Answering Operation, Setting the Unit to Answer Calls Base Unit

[ANSWER ON] and Indicator

Automatic Answering Operation

When the unit answers a call, a greeting message is played and the caller’s message is recorded.

•The total recording time of all messages (greeting, incoming and memo) is about 16 minutes (about 8 minutes in “Enhanced recording” mode, p. 27). If messages are recorded in noisy rooms, the time may be shortened by up to 3 minutes.

•To select the caller’s recording time, see page 26.

•A maximum of 64 messages (including greeting and memo message) can be recorded.

Setting the Unit to Answer Calls Base Unit

Press [ANSWER ON] to turn on the Answering System.

• The indicator lights and the unit announces “Answer set” and current day and time. If “Answer set. Set time” is heard, set the date and time

(p. 14).

• The unit will announce the remaining recording time if it is less than 3 minutes.

• When no recording time is available, you will need to erase any unnecessary messages before new messages can be recorded (p. 66). The unit can indicate that memory is full in the following ways:

— “ FULL ” will flash on the base unit and the

ANSWER ON indicator will flash rapidly until you erase a message.

—The unit will announce “Memory full” when you press [ANSWER ON], [GREETING REC], or [MEMO], and after playing back messages or recording a message.

•If you do not want the unit to answer calls, press [ANSWER ON] again to turn off the Answering System. The indicator light goes out and “Answer off” is heard.

•You can also turn on the Answering System remotely from an outside phone (p. 70).

•If you subscribe to Caller ID (p. 35), Caller ID information automatically adjusts the date and time when a call is received, provided you have already set the date and time manually (p. 14).

Handset

Answering System

1	Press [MENU].
2	Press the soft key (Select) at “Message play”.
3	Press [8] to turn on the Answering System.
	• “Answer set” is heard.
4	Press [OFF].
• To turn the Answering System off, press [0] in step 3. “Answer off” is heard.			61
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