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Accessing Your Answering System
If your base has an answering system, you can use your handset
to get your messages and change your answering system setup.
The answering system plays your new messages (that you
havenotlistenedtoyet)rst.Ifyouhavenonewmessages,the
system plays your old messages.
You have the following options:
Playing
new
messages
Press [ /mute]. The system announces the number of
newandoldmessages,thenplaystherstnewmessage
followed by the day and time it was received. Then the
system plays the new messages in the order they were
received.
Repeating
a message
Press [
1/
] once to go to the beginning of the current
message.
Press [
1/
] repeatedly to go back to a previous message.
Skipping a
message
Press [
3/
] to go to the beginning of the next message.
Deleting a
message
While a message is playing, press [
4/
].
The message is permanently deleted.
Playing old
messages
After you listen to your new messages, press [
/mute]
again to play your old messages.
Exiting the
message
review
Press [
5/
] to stop the message playback.
Press [
] to exit the system and return to standby,
or press [
2/
] to restart the message playback.
Screening Calls
If your base has an answering system, you can listen to callers
as they leave a message. Press [ /mute] when the system is
answering to listen to the caller without answering the phone.