User's Manual

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Telephone settings
Handset settings
Home area code
If you dial 7 digits to make a local call (no area code required), enter your
area code into the telephone as home area code. When you receive a call
from within your home area code, the caller ID history only displays the
7 digits of the telephone number.
This feature makes it easy for you to make a call from the caller ID history.
If you dial 10 digits to make a local call, do not use this home area code
feature. If you do, you will not be able to place calls from your caller ID
history because they have only 7 digits.
Press MENU/
SELECT in idle mode to enter the main menu.
Press
CID or DIR to scroll to >SETTINGS, then press
MENU/SELECT.
Press
CID or DIR to scroll to >HOME AREA CODE, then
press
MENU/SELECT.
Use the dialing keys to enter your 3-digit area code.
Press
MUTE/DELETE to erase digits while entering.
Press
MENU/SELECT to save the setting.
NOTE: If, in the future, your telephone service provider requires you to dial 10 digits to make
a local call (area code + telephone number), you need to delete your home area code. While the
home area code is displaying in Step 4 above, press and hold
MUTE/DELETE. The home area code
is now restored to its default setting of _ _ _(empty).
Dial mode
The dial mode is preset to tone dialing. If you have pulse (rotary) service, you
must change the dial mode to pulse dialing before using the telephone.
Press MENU/
SELECT in the idle mode to enter the
main menu.
Press
CID or DIR to scroll to >SETTINGS, then press
MENU/SELECT.
Press
CID or DIR to scroll to >DIAL MODE, then press
MENU/SELECT.
Press
CID or DIR to choose between >TONE
and >PULSE.
Press
MENU/SELECT to save the setting.
NOTE: If you have dial pulse (rotary) dialing service only, refer to Temporary tone dialing on
page 21 to temporarily switch from dial pulse to touch-tone dialing during a call.
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DIAL MODE
>TONE
HOME AREA CODE
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HOME AREA CODE
>DIAL MODE
>HOME AREA CODE
DIAL MODE
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Telephone settings
Telephone base ringer volume
When the telephone base is not in use, press
/ /-VOLUME+ on the telephone base to set the
ringer volume level (1-6), or turn the ringer off. A
sample of the ringer sounds as you adjust the volume.
The telephone base announces, “Base ringer is off”
when you set the volume to 0.
NOTE: If a handset is on an outside call, the telephone base
volume cannot be changed.
Answering system settings
Go to Answering system settings starting on page 39 for instructions on how
to use a handset to modify the answering system settings shown below.
Setting Page(s)
Announcement (record, play and delete) 39-40
Answer on/off 40
Call screening 41
Number of rings 41
Remote access code 42
Message alert tone 42
Recording time 43