Polycom IP 501 manual Microphone Mute, General Key Use, Local Conferencing, Splitting a Conference

Microphone Mute

During a call, press . The LED on the phone lights up and a flashing microphone on the display indicates that the other party (parties) cannot hear you.

Microphone Mute applies to all modes: handset, headset, and hands-free.

You can still hear all other parties while Mute is enabled.

To turn off Microphone Mute, press again.

General Key Use

To navigate through menus and to enter data, these are useful tips:

1.Use and to scroll through lists. In some lists the * and # keys can be used as “Page Up” and “Page Down”.

2.When menus have submenus, use and to move one level down

or one level back up.

3.	Press	Menu	to exit from any
	menu.
4.	Press	DirectoriesConference	to exit from any

directory.

5.To enter text using the dialpad, press the number keys one or more times. For example, for ‘A’ press ‘2’ and for ‘C’ press ‘222’. When in text entry mode the display title will show whether keys will gener- ate numbers (1), upper-case (A) or lower-case (a) characters and the 1/A/a soft key can change this.

Local Conferencing

You can create a conference with two other parties using the phone’s local conferencing feature.

1. Place a call to the first party.	4. When the second party answers,
2. Press Conference or the Confrnc soft	press Conference or the Confrnc soft key
key to obtain a	again to join all
new line (the	parties in the
active call is placed on hold).	conference, or press the Split soft
3. Dial the phone number of the sec-	key to put the first call on hold and
ond party or use the arrow keys to	keep the second call as the active
access speed dial numbers, missed,	call.
placed, and received call lists.	A conference may be created at any time
From one of these lists press the
	between an active call and a call which is
Dial soft key.
	on hold (on the same line) by pressing the
	Join soft key.

Ending the call on the conference originator’s phone will not end the conference, the other two parties can continue to talk

Splitting a Conference

When a conference has been established, a Split soft key is available. Pressing this

key will split the conference into two calls on hold.