About This Guide; Who Should Read This Guide; Conventions Used In This Guide; Terms And Writing Conventions - Polycom VVX500 User Manual

About This Guide

This VVX 500 and VVX 600 business media phones and VVX camera user guide uses a number of
conventions that help you to understand information and perform tasks.

Who Should Read this Guide?

This guide contains overview information for people who are just starting to learn about their VVX 500 or
VVX 600 phone, or who have experience, but need a quick refresher. It is intended for beginning users,
as well as intermediate and advanced users who want to learn about their phone's features.

Conventions Used in this Guide

This user guide contains terms, graphical elements, and a few typographic conventions. Familiarizing
yourself with these terms, elements, and conventions helps you successfully perform tasks.

Terms and Writing Conventions

 The Phone/your phone
specifically noted in this guide, especially with regard to phone graphics, both phones operate in
the same way and the information in this guide applies to both phones.
 Tap This term refers to touching an item on the screen with your finger and then lifting your finger.
 Press This action refers to depressing a key on the keypad or pressing a screen item for a
second or two.
 Press and hold When you press and hold a screen item, you need to touch the screen for a
second or two before lifting your finger.
 Tap Submenu > Submenu > Submenu This convention describes how to access submenus.
Each submenu name is in boldface and separated by a 'greater than' symbol. If the instructions
indicate to tap Basic > Preferences > Language, tap the Basic submenu, tap the Preferences
submenu, and tap the Language submenu.
 Highlight This action refers to tapping an item on the screen so that its appearance brightens.
Soft keys apply to highlighted items.
 Select Selecting an item on the screen refers to tapping the item so that another screen opens.
 Views Your phone has four main views: Home, Calls, Active Call, and Lines (the default view). A
view is a specific screen on the phone interface that provides unique information and enables you
to perform specific tasks.
 Dialpad The dialpad is the area of the keypad you use to enter numbers and characters. The
dialpad consists of all the number keys, as well as the asterisk (*) and pound (#) keys.
 Scroll This action describes how to view lists that appear on more than one screen. To scroll
through items or lists, touch the screen, and then drag your finger up, down, left, or right. To stop
scrolling, stop the dragging motion.
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These terms refer to either the VVX 500 or VVX 600 phone. Unless
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