58Automatic Answering OperationThe Answering System allows the unit to answer calls with a greeting message.Callers can then leave a message in a mailbox (p. 56).Setting the Unit to Answer CallsPress [ANSWER ON] to turn on the AnsweringSystem.• The indicator lights and the unit announces“Answer set” and the current day and time.If “Answer set. Set time” is heard, set the date andtime (p. 16) .• The unit will announce the remaining recordingtime if it is less than 3 minutes.• When no recording time is available, you will needto erase any unnecessary messages before new messages can be recorded(p. 62). The unit can indicate that memory is full in the following ways:— “ ” will flash on the base unit and the ANSWER ON indicator will flash rapidly.— The unit will announce “Memory full” when you press [ANSWER ON],[GREETING REC], or [MEMO], and after playing back messages or recordinga message.• If you do not want the unit to answer calls, press [ANSWER ON] again to turn offthe Answering System. The indicator goes out and “Answer off” is heard.• You can also turn on the Answering System remotely from an outside phone (p. 68).• If you subscribe to Caller ID (p. 32), Caller ID information automatically adjusts thedate and time when a call is received, provided you have already set the date andtime manually (p. 16).Monitoring Incoming CallsWhile a caller is leaving a message, you can monitor the call through the base unitspeaker.• To increase the speaker volume while monitoring, press [B]. To decrease volume,press [d].To answer a call while monitoring, press [SP-PHONE] on the base unit or press[C] or [s] on the handset.To turn the incoming call monitoring feature offWhen the base unit is not in use, press [GREETING CHECK], then press [d]repeatedly until “0” is displayed. (Make sure the Answering System is turned on.)ORWhile monitoring, press [d] repeatedly until “0” is displayed.• If the incoming call monitoring feature is turned off, it will remain off when the nextcall is monitored.• If you adjust the speaker volume while playing back messages or using thespeakerphone, the speaker volume for monitoring will be turned on again. To turnthe speaker volume off, see “To turn the incoming call monitoring feature off” ofabove step.Base Unit[ANSWER ON]and IndicatorFULLBase Unit