Setting Your Outgoing Message (Greeting)

When you receive a call, the answering system automatically plays either a preset message or your own greeting.

Preset message

The following message is prerecorded:

“Hello, no one is available to take your call. Please leave a message after the tone.”

See “Selecting the message record time”, page 45 how to set the announce only feature.

Recording a personal outgoing message (Greeting)

1) Press and hold greeting.

You hear the announcement “Record greeting” and a confirmation tone.

[ ] flashes on the message counter.

2) Start recording your message. You have 30

seconds, and the message counter

starts to count down [

] to [

] every

second.

3)When you are finished recording your greeting, press greeting or play/stop. You hear a confirmation tone, and then your greeting plays back for you.

Choosing between the two outgoing messages

Press greeting. Then press greeting again when the outgoing message is played. This switches between the prerecorded greeting or the personal greeting. After finishing playing back the message, a confirmation tone is heard.

To delete the personal Greeting, press delete during the announcement and the system announces “Greeting has been deleted”.

You can record a greeting up to 30 seconds long.

Position yourself as near to the main base as possible and speak clearly when recording your outgoing message.

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