BT Freelance XC 500 User manual

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User
Guide
BT Freelance XC 500
Digital Cordless Telephone Answering Machine
This equipment is not designed or making emergency telephone calls when the
power ails. Alternative arrangements should be made or access to emergency services.
This product is intended or connection to analogue public switched telephone networks
and private switchboards in the United Kingdom.
YOU MUST
SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR
NETWOR PROVIDER’S
CALLER DISPLAY
SERVICE BEFORE
THIS FEATURE WILL WOR .
A QUARTERLY FEE IS PAYABLE

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Please open this page for an ‘At a glance’
guide to your Freelance XC 500

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Please open this page for a further ‘At a glance’
guide to your Freelance XC 500

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Handset display
Display shows you the name and number you have dialled
and status of the handset.
Talk button
Use to make, receive and end calls.
Menu button
Use to access and select the options in the menu.
Internal button
To make internal calls between handsets registered to
the base and to transfer an external call to an additional
handset.
Conference button
Allows you to hold a three-way conversation.
Recall button
For use with a switchboard/PBX and
BT Calling Features.
Also used to switch the handset on or off.
Keypad
Delete/Secrecy button
Use to delete digits entered incorrectly and numbers in the
Calls list. Also used to mute a call so the caller cannot hear
you talk to someone close by.
Volume button
Use to adjust the handset earpiece speech volume and
handset and base ringer volume.
Also used to access the Calls list, and scroll through the
directory, redial and calls list.
Redial/Pause button
To redial one of the 5 last numbers called.
Also used to enter a pause in a stored number.
P onebook button
Use to access the 50 names and numbers stored in the
phonebook.
At a glance
Freelance XC 500 Handset

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At a glance
BT Freelance XC 500 Base
Page button
Press to page the handset.
Volume
Adjust the loudspeaker volume.
Play
Lets you play and pause your messages.
Power/In Use light
Flashes when the handset is in use.
Charging light
Comes on to indicate charging when the handset is on the base.
Stop
To stop message playback.
Skip forward
Lets you skip forward through your messages and memos.
Also allows you to set the answer delay.
Allows you to select your Answer Only outgoing message.
Answer on/off
Switches the answering machine on and off.
Also allows you to select your outgoing message.
Skip backward
Lets you skip backwards through your messages and memos.
Also allows you to switch the audible message alert on or off.
Allows you to select your Answer and Record outgoing message.
Delete
Deletes recorded messages and memos.

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Quick guide to the handset display icons
Handset 1
Displays the
number of the
handset at all
times.
Icon Steady Flashing
EXT
External line in use Incoming call
INT Internal call Internal call rom another handset
New call in Calls list
3 way conversation in progress
Battery exhausted
Battery weak
Battery hal - ull
Battery ull
Phonebook
Menu in use
Handset linked to base station Out o range or searching or base station
EXT
INT
HANDSET 1
EXT
INT
Idle screen

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Menu Structure
Phonebook Add
Delete
Modify
Setup Base Vol Volume 1.....5
Vol Off
Base Mel Melody 1.....5
Sel Base Base 1.....4
Auto
Del HS PIN? Handset 1.....5
Pin Code PIN? New PIN
Retype
Priority On
Off
Select Base
Handset 1.....5
Dial Mode Tone
Pulse
Recall Recall 1
Recall 2
PABX PBX1 PIN?
PBX2 PIN?
Pause 3 Sec
5 Sec
Default PIN?
Cont......
TAM menu TAM menu
(Flashes on display when in TAM menu.)
This is a handset See page 44 ‘Using the Freelance XC 500
announcement menu. answering machine via the handset’.

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Handset Beep eytone On or Off
Low Batt On or Off
Outrange On or Off
Ring Vol Volume 1.....5
Vol Off
Ear Vol Ear Vol 1.....5
Int Mel Melody 1.....5
Ext Mel Melody 1.....5
Auto Ans On
Off
Name
Language English
Francais
Deutsch
Nederl
Italiano
Espanol
Portuges
Norsk
Dansk
Svenska
Suomi
Register Base 1.....4 PIN?
Important. If you make a mistake you can return to the previous menu
heading by pressing the DEL button. If you press and hold the DEL button
at any time you will return to the idle screen. After 30 seconds if no
buttons are pressed the handset will automatically return to the idle screen.

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At a glance
andset 1-2
Base 3-4
Display icons 5
Menu structure 6
Introduction 9
Unpacking your
Freelance XC 500 9
For your records 9
Safety information 10
Setting up 2
Plan the location 12
Using the telephone 7
Making and receiving calls 17
Call timer 18
Redial 19
Secrecy 19
Name and number Phonebook 19
Paging handsets 22
Handset settings 23
Base settings 26
BT Caller Display 29
Calls list 30
Setting up and personalising
your answering machine 32
Message display on the
base station 33
Answer delay 34
Audible message alert 35
Outgoing messages 35
Using the Freelance XC 500
answering machine via the
base unit 4
Call screening 43
Using the Freelance XC 500
answering machine via the
handset 44
Memos 47
Call screening/Call intercept 48
Remote access 49
Time saver 50
Operating the answering
machine 51
Using additional handsets
and bases 52
Internal calls 54
Transferring calls 54
Help 56
General information 58
Guarantee 58
Technical information 59
Switchboard compatibility 59
Switchboard external line
access code 59
Recall 60
In this guide
Note
In this user guide, we’ve included helpful tips and useful notes.
They are shown in a white box like this.

For your records
Date o purchase:
Place o purchase:
Serial number:
(On the underside o the base)
For guarantee purposes proof of
purchase is required so please keep
your receipt.
Enter your Base station PIN here:
See page 27 for more information.
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Introduction
Your Freelance XC 500 has been designed for ease of use and
made to the high standards set by BT.
This user guide applies to both
single and multiple handset
systems.
Please read the instructions
carefully before use and retain this
user guide for future reference.
Unpacking your
Freelance XC 500
If anything is missing, please
contact your place of purchase
immediately.
Freelance XC 500
base station
Freelance XC 500
handset
2 x AAA rechargeable
batteries (NiMH)
Power supply for
base station
(Item code: 005391)
Telephone line cord
Note
If you have purchased one of
the multiple handset packs the
handsets come pre-registered.
In addition:
If you have purchased the
Freelance XC 500 Twin.
Freelance XC 500 handset
Freelance XC 500 charger
2 x AAA rechargeable batteries
Power supply for the charger
(Item code: 003313)