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Setting Up and Operating Your Telephone’s Answering System
Turning your Answering System On/Off
To turn your answering sys-
tem on/off:
1
Press P.
- The display will read
“Program...”
2 Press the soft key under ANSW.
The display will show the current
Answering System setting.
3 Press the soft key under CHANGE
repeatedly, until the desired
Answering System setting is dis-
played.
The choices are:
Ans System:OFF (factory setting)
Ans System:ON
Ans System:AA
4 Press P to exit.
You may turn your answering system ON or OFF
at this telephone, or you may set this phone as
an Auto Attendant for the system.
OFF: Use this setting at any phone that you want
its answering system to be completely off. This
telephone’s answering system will not answer
any incoming calls, or calls that are transferred
to it from other extensions in the system.
ON: If you are NOT setting another phone as an
Auto Attendant for your system, you would set
this phone to ON if you would like it to act as a
regular answering machine. In this case it would
answer both incoming calls and calls transferred
to it from other extensions in the system.
If you ARE setting another phone as an Auto
Attendant for your system, you would still set this
phone to ON if you want it to answer calls trans-
ferred to it from other extensions, as well as
incoming calls on any private lines.
AA: Only use this setting if you are setting this
phone as the Auto Attendant for your system
(See Setting Up and Operating a Telephone as
an Auto Attendant, page 72).
Ans System: ON
CHANGE NEXT
Follow the instructions at left to turn
your answering system on or off
Note: Some people want their
Answering System ON on certain lines,
but OFF on the remaining lines. To do
this, follow steps 1-2 above, then press
the soft key under NEXT repeatedly
until Advanced Setting appears in
the display, then press the soft key
under ENTER. Press the soft key under
NEXT repeatedly until Ans Sys by
Line appears in the display, then press
the soft key under ENTER. The display
will read Ans Sys L1: ON. Press the
soft key under CHANGE if you wish to
change this setting to OFF, then press
NEXT and CHANGE to change the set-
ting for any of the other lines.
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