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Telephone Quick Reference

CHANGING RING TONE
Lets you make your phone ring with 1 of 8 tones.
Dial Tone + *572 + 1-8 tones + lift the handset and hang up.

PLACING CALLS
Internal:
Dial Tone + extension
External: 9 + number
To finish a call and place another call without hanging up the handset press your ext. button to drop the call and get dial tone again.

HOLD--REGULAR
HOLD + hang up or press another line / extension button.
To re-connect to the caller on HOLD, press the flashing line / extension button, lift handset, or from another phone, PU + held extension.
If you do not return to the call, it rings back with triple ring after time-out.
When you are put on hold and want to listen over the speaker until other person returns to their phone:

HOLD -- CONSULTATION (CONNECT)
Lets you put 1 caller on hold and place a 2nd call on the same line.
Active call + TRANSFER + place 2nd call.
Call Waiting light flashes when a call is waiting.
Use CONNECT to alternate between the two calls.

TRANSFER (TRANSFER)
TRANSFER + dial 2nd number + announce + hang up
Use CONNECT if you need to re-connect to the caller.
Use CLEAR to drop off someone's busy car phone or PhoneMail automatically re-connect to the caller.
The call will ring to the Operator if unanswered after 8 rings, and if their phone is not programmed to forward to another extension. This is a good reason to stay on the line and announce the call.

CONNECT
Connects you to a waiting call when Call Wtg light flashes.
Press CONNECT to re-connect to a transfer in progress.

CONFERENCE
Allows up to 8 parties on one conversation.
Add to Conference: TRANSFER + number + announce + TRANSFER
Use CONNECT to re-connect to the conference when the called party is busy, does not answer, or cannot join the conference.
You cannot CONNECT to a waiting party when you're on a conference. Ignore the call waiting or hang up from the conference to get 2nd call

DIRECT STATION SELECT (DSS, D-)
Lets you monitor and automatically dial or answer an extension.

PICKUP (PICK)
Answer a call ringing, on hold, camped, or parked on another extension.

You cannot pick up a callback (triple ring) to another extension.
You get fast busy signal if the pick up is invalid.

SPEED DIAL SYSTEM
SYS SPI (Dial Tone + #61) + 001-999

PARK
Lets you put caller on hold at another busy or idle extension.
Park a call: TRANSFER + PARK (*6) + extension + hang up

Retrieve a parked call from a different ext. than it is parked on: Dial Tone + PICK (or *3)+ extension.
Retrieve from extension, the call is parked on: Press flashing line button

CALLBACK(CALLBCK)
Signals a callback for an internal ext. that is busy, no answer, or DND
Callback Camp on:

Trunk Callback Queuing:

FORWARD
Re-directs your calls to another extension.
Activate: Dial Tone + FORWARD (or #91)+ destination ext. + hang up Ext. light flickers and broken dial tone while your ext. is forwarded. Your phone gives a burst ring each time it manually forwards a call.
Cancel on prime line: No Dial Tone + FORWARD (or Dial Tone ##91)
Cancel on 2nd line: Press line/ext. button + ##91 (Can't use FORWARD)

SAVE/REDIAL
Saves 1 number at a time to be re-dialed later. Must have SAV/RDL button to use this feature on external calls. Save a number: Busy, No Answer, or Talking + SAV/RDL (or Redial a saved number: SAV/RDL (or Dial Tone + #4)

SPEED DIAL, INDIVIDUAL
Store 1-10 numbers in memory.
Program:

Place an Individual Speed Dial call: Dial Tone + #3 + 1-0

REPERTORY DIAL/DDS
Store up to 22 characters on a button. If programming on a display phone, watch the display for prompts.
Program: No Dial Tone + PROGRAM + Rep-dial button + phone number + PROGRAM. Label the button.

MAILBOX
Lets you receive and answer reminders and PhoneMail messages. Also lets you light the MAILBOX light of other extensions.
Light flashes and/or broken dial tone with new message mailbox.
Display Phones:

Non-display phones: Answer a message: Press MAILBOX

RINGS AND TONES
- Single ring:Internal incoming or transferred call
- Double ring:External incoming or transferred call
- Triple ring: Callback or Recall from Hold or Park
- 3 short beeps: Confirmation beeps
- Low Burst tone: Call to your forwarded extension
- Fast broken dial tone: Forwarded or Do Not Disturb
- Slow broken dial tone: Reminder or PhoneMail message
- 1 short tone every 10 sec: Internal call waiting
- 2 short tones every 10 sec: External call waiting



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