Turn The Answering System On Or Off At The Telephone Base; New Message Indication; Call Screening At The Telephone Base; Call Intercept - AT&T CL82200 User Manual

Answering system
About the answering system
If the memory is full, the answering system announces, "Memory is full." the
handset screen displays Memory full and the number of messages and F are
flashing alternatively in the message counter. You cannot record new messages
until old ones have been deleted.

Turn the answering system on or off at the telephone base

Unless you change it, the answering system is on and ready to record
messages. You can turn the answering system off, but if you do so, the
answering system does not answer calls and record incoming messages.
Press ANSWER ON to turn the answering system on or
off. If the answering system is turned on, it announces "Calls
will be answered." If the answering system is turned off, it
announces "Calls will not be answered."

New message indication

The message window on the telephone base flashes and
shows on the handset when there are new answering
system messages.
NOTE: After reviewing new message(s), the number of old message(s)
appears on the message window.
If the new message alert tone is turned on, the telephone base beeps every 10
seconds when there are unreviewed messages.

Call screening at the telephone base

If the answering system is on and the telephone base volume is not off (set
to 1 or higher), you hear the announcement and the incoming message when
receiving a call. If you want the telephone base to be silent while recording
messages, make sure you set the telephone base volume to 0.
If the call screening is off, you can temporarily turn on the call screening
by press VOLUME
incoming message.

Call intercept

While screening a call, you can stop recording and speak to the caller by
pressing PHONE/
. The call screening setting resumes to Off for the next
or SPEAKER on the handset.
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