User's Manual

Telephone settings
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Handset and telephone base settings
Home area code
If you dial seven digits to make a local call (no area code required), enter
your area code into the telephone as the home area code. When you receive
a call from within your home area code, the caller ID history only displays the
seven digits of the telephone number.
This feature makes it easy for you to place a call from the caller ID log. If you
dial ten digits to make a local phone call, do not use this home area code
feature. If you do, you cannot place local calls from your caller ID log, as they
will have only seven digits.
To set the home area code:
1. Press MENU in idle mode to enter the main menu.
2. Press qCID or pDIR on the handset, or press qCALLER ID or pDIRECTORY on
the telephone base to scroll to Directory, then press SELECT.
3. Press OPTION to choose Home.
Press qCID or pDIR on the handset, or press qCALLER ID or pDIRECTORY on
the telephone base to scroll to Home area code, then press SELECT. The
screen briefly shows
Only for 7 digit dial from CID.
4. Use the dialing keys to enter a three-digit home area code.
Press MUTE/DELETE to delete a digit.
Press and hold MUTE/DELETE to delete all digits.
5. Press SAVE to confirm. There is a confirmation tone and the screen shows
Area code will not show in CID briefly before returning to the previous
menu.
NOTE: If in the future, your telephone service provider requires you to dial ten digits to
make a local call (area code plus telephone number), you need to delete your home
area code and dial out locally from the call ID log. With the home area code displayed,
press and hold MUTE/DELETE until the digits are deleted, and then press SELECT.
The home area code is now restored to its default setting of _ _ _ (empty).
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