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Telecommunications
Humanities 316
651-696-6566


 

The Basics

 

From the main voice mail menu,
to listen to messages, press 1
to send a message to an on campus person, without ringing their phone, press 2
to check if a message you left has been listened to, press 3
to change your password, greeting, or group lists, press 4

While you are listening to a message:

you can by pressing
rewind 10 seconds 1
rewind to beginning of message 1-1
pause message 2
fast forward 10 seconds 3
fast forward to end of message 3-3
play message slower 4
hear date & time message left 5
play message faster 7
 

After listening to a message:

get the date & time message was left reply to the message
you can by pressing
replay your message 4
get the date & time the message was left 5
send a copy of the message 6
erase the message 7
reply to the message 8
save the message 9
 

 

 


 

 

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