Button inquiry, Button labels, Making and answering calls – Nortel Networks T7208 User Manual

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Check what is programmed on your buttons.

1. Press

≤•‚.

2. Press the button(s) that you want to check.
3. Read the display. Button assignment examples are

shown below.

4. Press

≤ when finished.

Use the button label strip on the telephone to show what is
programmed on the buttons. Spare button label strips are
provided with your telephone.

How to label your buttons

1. Remove the plastic lens and button label strip from the

telephone.

2. Write the name of each button on the button label strip.
3. Insert the button label strip back on the telephone.
4. Insert plastic lens, matching the tabs on the lens with

the notches on the telephone.

Tip

Use the Desktop Assistant application to customize
button label strips for your telephone.

Go to www.nortelnetworks.com and download the
Desktop Assistant application to your personal computer.

Button inquiry

Line

Intercom

Internal autodial

External autodial

Feature

Handsfree

Button labels

XXX (LINENAME)

XXXX (SETNAME)

Autodial (XXXX)

(XXXXXXXXXX)

(FEATURENAME)

Handsfree

Align tabs

Memory buttons are buttons with

Ω indicators not

assigned as line, intercom or handsfree buttons.
Memory buttons store internal and external numbers or
features to give you one touch dialing or feature activation.

You can program a memory button with a new number or
feature.

External autodial

1. Press

≤•⁄.

2. Press a memory button.
3. Dial the external number.
4. Press

≥ to store the number.

5. Label your new button.

Internal autodial

1. Press

≤•¤.

2. Press a memory button.
3. Dial the extension number.
4. Label your new button.

Features

1. Press

≤ • ‹.

2. Press a memory button.
3. Press

≤ and enter the feature code.

4. Label your new button.

How to erase memory buttons

1. Press

≤•⁄.

2. Press a memory button.
3. Press

≥ to erase the button.

Memory buttons

Programming memory buttons

Making calls

There are many ways to make a call, depending on your
telephone programming and the type of call.

External calls using line buttons

1. Lift the handset.

2. Press a line button.

3. Dial the external telephone number.

External calls using intercom buttons

1. Lift the handset.

2. Press an intercom button and enter a line pool access

code.

3. When you hear an external dial tone, dial the external

telephone number.

Contact your system administrator for a list of line pool
codes.

Internal calls using intercom buttons

1. Lift the handset.

2. Press an intercom button.

3. Dial the extension number.

Contact your system administrator for a list of extension
numbers.

Answering calls

When your telephone rings and the display light flashes or
when an intercom or line button

Ω indicator flashes:

Lift the handset.
OR
Press the button with the flashing

Ω indicator before

you lift the handset.

How to hold calls

While on a call, press

≥. The Ω indicator for the line

on hold will flash.

To retrieve a held call, press the line button with the
flashing

Ω indicator.

Calls are put on hold automatically when you switch
from one line to another.

Making and answering calls

Handsfree calls

Your system administrator must program the handsfree
feature on your telephone.

Press the handsfree button on your telephone to
make or answer a call.

To switch to handsfree when you are on a call, press
the handsfree button and replace the handset. Lift
the handset to switch back.

When programmed, the handsfree feature is assigned to
button 8 on your telephone.

How to mute calls

While on a call, press

© to turn the microphone off.

The

© light flashes when the microphone is off.

Press

© again to turn the microphone on.

Use

© on handset, handsfree or headset calls.

Headset calls

Press

¬ to activate the headset mode. When the

¬ light is on, press a line or intercom button to
make a call.

Press

¬ to answer a call when the telephone rings

or when an intercom or line button

Ω indicator

flashes.

To switch to your headset when you are on a call,
press

¬ and replace the handset. Lift the handset

to switch back.

Warning

Nortel Networks does not support the connection of a
headset to the T7208 telephone, unless handsfree is
enabled within the system programming. If handsfree is
not enabled, certain call handling features may not work
as intended.

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