User`s guide

Message
DESCRIPTION
How you respond to a Message light depends on the type of phone you
have.
CONSIDERATIONS
RELATED FEATURES
● When the light next to the Message button is lit on a phone without a
display, call your attendant to get your messages.
● When the Message light is lit on a display phone, someone in the system
has left you a message.
Use your Message button to check your display
for messages.
● The 7406D with Display phone has a Message light, but not a Message
button. The 5-button analog phone has neither. On these phones, you
can program the Message feature onto a button.
● On a 7406D phone without a display, you must program both a Message
button and a Delete Message button. When your Message light is on, press
one of these buttons and then the other until your Message light goes off.
Then call a system attendant to see if there is a message for you.
● Leave Word Calling
● Posted Message
How to Program
How to Use
If you have a 5-button analog phone or a 7406D
To turn a Message light off or on from attendant
with display phone, you may want to program a
console:
Message and a Delete Message button. If you
1 Press Message Status.
need a Message Status button with a light next to
The red light next to Message Status flashes, and the
it, program it on an appropriate button.
Auto Intercom buttons show message status instead of
To program a Message button:
call-handling status.
1 Label a button. 2 Press the appropriate Station Shift button if
2 Enter programming mode by sliding the T/P
you’re not on the correct band for the phone’s
switch to P. (Digital phones: Dial #33.)
intercom number.
Green light on =
Message light is on
3 Press the button you want to program.
Green light off =
Message light is off
4 Dial *98.
3 To change the state of the Message light, press
5 Leave programming mode by sliding the T/P
Send Message, then press the person’s Auto
Intercom button.
switch to the center position. (Digital phones:
Dial #00.)
4 Press Message Status to return to normal call-
handling.
To program a Delete Message button:
The red light goes off.
1 Label a button.
To turn a Message light off at a nonattendant
2 Enter programming mode by sliding the T/P
position:
switch to P. (Digital phones: Dial #33.)
1 Perform the appropriate procedure:
3 Press the button you want to program.
➤ Press Message.
4 Dial *78.
The message light goes off.
5 Leave programming mode by sliding the T/P
➤ Dial #54.
switch to the center position. (Digital phones:
Dial #00.)
The message light goes off.
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