User manual VTECH VT 5850

[. . . ] Important Safety Instructions When using your telephone equipment, basic safety precautions should always be followed to reduce the risk of fire, electric shock and injury, including the following: 1. Follow all warnings and instructions marked on the product. Unplug this product from the wall outlet before cleaning. Do not use liquid cleaners or aerosol cleaners. [. . . ] Use Announce only when you want to give information to callers without accepting messages. If you choose not to record an announcement, the system answers with a pre-recorded announcement. The normal answering pre-recorded announcement says: "Hello. I'm unable to answer your call right now. Please leave your name, number and a message after the tone. " The Announce Only pre-recorded announcement says: "Hello, I'm unable to answer your call right now. Thank you. " By setting Announce Only to on or off, you decide which announcement your callers will hear when the system answers a call (the system comes set for normal answering, with Announce Only turned off). See Set Announce Only on page 26 to change your announcement selection. · · Answering System Operation · Record Your Announcement NOTE: If you have assigned different mailboxes to different people, be sure to tell callers in your announcement to press 1, 2 or 3 to leave a message in the appropriate mailbox. Remember to leave a few seconds blank at the end of your recorded announcement to allow callers having enough time to select a mailbox. An example of an announcement: "Thank you for calling. To leave a message for Bob, press 1 now; to leave a message for Sue, press 2 now; to leave a message for Elmo, press 3 now; or, wait for the beep and leave your message. " The system will record your announcement for the currently selected answer mode (Normal or Announce Only). To confirm or change the answer mode, follow the directions under Answering System Feature Setup and Feature Summary on pages 25 and 26. 1. With the system set for the desired answer mode (Normal or Announce Only) press MENU until you hear "Set Outgoing Message. " 2. After you hear "Now recording" followed by a beep, speak toward the base to record an announcement up to 90 seconds long. 24 Answering System Operation 3. Press any PLAY/STOP button to stop recording. The system plays back your recorded message. Review Your Announcement: 1. Press MENU until you hear "Set Outgoing Messages. " 2. The system plays the current announcement. Delete Your Announcement: Press DELETE during announcement playback. The system will use the pre-recorded announcement until you record a new one. Answering System Feature Setup You can set up one feature at a time, or you can set up a feature and then move on to set up another feature. 1. Press and release MENU until you hear the system announce the feature you want to set. Refer to Feature Summary on page 26 for a description of the features and your choices. Press TIME/SET to hear the current setting. Press CHANGE until you hear your desired setting. [. . . ] The abbreviation, IC, before the registration number signifies that registration was performed based on a Declaration of Conformity indicating that Industry Canada technical specifications were met. It does not imply that Industry Canada approved the equipment. Notice: The Ringer Equivalence Number (REN) for this terminal equipment is 0. 1. The REN assigned to each terminal equipment provides an indication of the maximum number of terminals allowed to be connected to a telephone interface. The termination on an interface may consist of any combination of devices subject only to the requirement that the sum of the Ringer Equivalence Numbers of all the devices does not exceed five. [. . . ]