User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Aastra 610d User’s Guide
- Content
- Operating and Display Elements
- System Information
- Security
- Dialling and Phoning
- Using the Display and Operating Elements
- Supplementary features
- Making and answering calls
- Dialling by name – Quick search
- Dialling from the phone book - Alpha search
- Dialling from the Call List of Unanswered Calls
- Dialling from the Call List of Answered Calls
- Dialling with Redial
- Dialling with a configured softkey
- Requesting a Callback
- To answer the callback request
- Call waiting with an internal user
- Answering Call Waiting
- Starting an Announcement
- Receiving an Announcement
- Private call with PIN
- Using functions while in a call
- Organising absences from the desk
- Functions for special situations
- Forwarding a call during the ringing phase
- Rejecting a call during the ringing phase
- Listening to Voice Mail
- Sending text messages
- Reading text messages
- Picking up a call
- Making a call on a third-party phone
- Suppressing your call number from your called party's phone display
- Tracing Malicious Calls
- Activating personal call routing
- Activating Ring alone
- Setting functions by remote control
- Making and answering calls
- Personalizing Your Phone
- Installation and commissioning
- Further information
- Index

Dialling and Phoning
16 Aastra 610d
eud-1093/1.1 – I7.9 – 09.2009
■ Using Your Phone in Hands-Free Mode
You want other people to join the conversation or to have your hands free while making the
call.
The hands-free mode function activates the loudspeaker and the microphone.
■ Muting the Microphone
In the middle of a call you want to talk briefly with other persons in the room without your call
partner hearing your conversation.
You can switch the microphone on and off during a call.
During a call:
Press the Loudspeaker key.
➔ Hands-free operation is activated, is displayed.
Notes:
• Make sure the hands-free microphone is not obstructed.
• The sound quality is improved if you set the volume of your phone to a low
setting.
To continue the call without hands-free operation:
Press the Loudspeaker key.
➔ The loudspeaker and hands-free microphone are now deactivated.
Notes:
• To end a call in open-listening mode, press the End call key.
• To find out how to phone with headset, refer to the Chapter "Using a Head-
set", page 17.
• To find out how to set Auto Answer, refer to Chapter "Setting up a profile",
page 51.
Micro
Switching the microphone off:
Press the Micro softkey.
➔ Microphone is deactivated, is displayed.
Micro
Switching the microphone back on:
Press the Micro softkey a second time.