User manual VTECH VT 5867

[. . . ] 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 this product near water (for example, near a bath tub, kitchen sink or swimming pool). [. . . ] Use Announce Only mode (set to ON) when you want to give information to callers without accepting messages. If you choose not to record an announcement, the system answers with a prerecorded announcement which 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 prerecorded 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 33 to change your announcement selection. · · 31 Advanced Operations 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. Example of an outgoing announcement using the Mailbox feature: "We can't come to the phone right now. To leave a message for Bob, press 1 now. To leave a message for Sue, press 2 now. Otherwise, just wait for the beep. " If the caller does not select a Mailbox, their message will be saved in Mailbox 1. Press MENU until you hear "Set outgoing message". After you hear "Now recording" followed by a beep, speak toward the Base to record an announcement up to 90 seconds long. Press any PLAY/STOP button to stop recording. The system plays back your recorded message. To review your announcement at any time: 1. Press MENU until you hear "Set Outgoing Message". Press any PLAY/STOP button. Answering System Operation To 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 the first feature and then move on to set up the other features in sequence. Press and release MENU until you hear the system announce the feature you want to set. Refer to the following Feature Summary chart for a description of the features and your choices. Press CHANGE to hear the current setting. Continue to press CHANGE to adjust the current setting. Press MENU to move on to the next feature, or press a PLAY/STOP key to exit Feature Setup. 32 Answering System Operation FEATURE SUMMARY SYSTEM ANNOUNCES: "Set Security Code" 50* "Set Audible Alert" Off*/On Message Default settings indicated by * . DESCRIPTION/DIRECTIONS: Set the remote access code you will use to access features and functions of the answering system from a touch tone phone. The code can be changed to any two-digit number from 40 - 99. [. . . ] 31 Record Your Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Answering System Feature Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Feature Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Listen to, Save & Delete Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ]