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8528 Telephone User Guide – Issue 2, June 2010 Page 13
Personalizing Your Telephone
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 61) and Station Speed Dial (see page 36).
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 once to enter an “A.”
3. Press 9 three times to enter a “Y.”
4. Press (Message) to switch to Numeric Mode.
5. Press (Transfer) to enter a space.
6. Press 3.
7. Press 1.
8. Press (Speaker), #, or lift the handset to save the entry.
Dialpad Characters — American English and British English
Number of Times Dialpad Button is Pressed
Button
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
1
:-/,.;()&+*!?#1
2
ABC2abc
3
DEF3de f
4
GH I 4 g h i
5
JKL5 j k l
6
MNO6mn o
7
PQRS7 pq r s
8
TUV8 t uv
9
WXYZ9wxyz
0
0