Home Area Code; Dial Mode - AT&T EL52501 User Manual

Telephone settings
Handset settings

Home area code

If you dial 7 digits to make a local call (no area code required), enter your
area code into the telephone as home area code. When you receive a call
from within your home area code, the caller ID history only displays the
7 digits of the telephone number.
This feature makes it easy for you to make a call from the caller ID history.
If you dial 10 digits to make a local call, do not use this home area code
feature. If you do, you will not be able to place calls from your caller ID
history because they have only 7 digits.
1. Press mENu/
2. Press or
CID
/sELECT.
mENu
3. Press or
CID
/sELECT.
press
mENu
4. Use the dialing keys to enter your 3-digit area code.
Press /DELETE to erase digits while entering.
muTE
5. Press /sELECT to save the setting.
mENu
note: If, in the future, your telephone service provider requires you to dial 10 digits to make
a local call (area code + telephone number), you need to delete your home area code. While the
home area code is displaying in Step 4 above, press and hold
is now restored to its default setting of _ _ _(empty).

Dial mode

The dial mode is preset to tone dialing. If you have pulse (rotary) service, you
must change the dial mode to pulse dialing before using the telephone.
1. Press mENu/
main menu.
2. Press or
CID
/sELECT.
mENu
3. Press or
CID
/sELECT.
mENu
4. Press or
CID
and >puLsE.
5. Press /sELECT to save the setting.
mENu
note: If you have dial pulse (rotary) dialing service only, refer to Temporary tone dialing on
page 21 to temporarily switch from dial pulse to touch-tone dialing during a call.
in idle mode to enter the main menu.
sELECT
to scroll to >sETTINGs, then press
DIr
to scroll to >HOmE ArEA CODE, then
DIr
in the idle mode to enter the
sELECT
to scroll to >sETTINGs, then press
DIr
to scroll to >DIAL mODE, then press
DIr
to choose between >TONE
DIr
muTE
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>HOME AREA CODE
DIAL MODE
HOME AREA CODE
/DELETE. The home area code
HOME AREA CODE
>DIAL MODE
DIAL MODE
>TONE
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