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Setting Up the
Answering System
Setting Up the Answering System
You can set up your answering system’s features from the base or handset with two exceptions: you can only
change the greeting or record a new greeting from the base. Only one station at a time can access the answering
system menus.
Recording a Personal Greeting
Your answering system comes with a pre-recorded outgoing message or greeting that plays when you receive a
call: “Hello, no one is available to take your call. Please leave a message after the tone.” You can record your own
personal outgoing greeting. Your recorded greeting must be between two seconds and thirty seconds long.
On the base, press MENU/SELECT.
Select the Ans. Setup menu, and then the Record Greeting submenu.
Record Greeting, Start [select] appears. Press MENU/SELECT to start the recording. Begin recording after the
announcement. The message counter on the base LCD displays “30”, and then begins to count down.
When you nish recording, press MENU/SELECT again or press . You will hear a conrmation tone, and
your recorded greeting plays back for you.
Selecting a Greeting
You can switch back and forth between the pre-recorded greeting and your own greeting at any time.
On the base, press MENU/SELECT.
Select the Ans. Setup menu, and then the Greeting Options submenu. The system plays the current greeting.
To keep this greeting, do nothing. To switch to the other greeting, press or on the four-way function key
while the system is playing the current greeting.
Each time you press or , the system switches between the pre-recorded and the personal greeting. The
last greeting you hear is used as the current greeting.
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