Avaya 9608 - Chapter 9: Using the Contacts Feature; Adding a New Contact

Chapter 9: Using the contacts feature
You can save up to 250 names and up to 6 telephone numbers for each name. When you press the
Contacts button, the phone activates the Contacts search mode automatically.
Note:
Release 6.3 and later do not support voice dialing.
Note:
When you press the Contacts button you might not see all of the functions that are described in
this chapter. The functions are not available because your administrator has disabled changes
to Contacts.
Adding a new contact
About this task
You can add up to six numbers for a contact. Selecting "track presence" as a type allows you to
track the contact's telephone presence, for example, not logged in, logged in, in use, or sending all
calls to another number.
Procedure
1. Press Contacts > New.
2. Enter the first and last name using the dialpad.
• Press the number key that corresponds to the letter or number you want to enter until the
letter or number is displayed.
• If the characters are on the same key, pause before entering the next character.
• To enter a space, press 0.
• Enter remaining letters or numbers.
• To delete the last character, press the Bksp softkey.
Note:
If you want to remove a letter, number, space, or symbol that is in the middle of the
text you entered, use the left and right navigation arrows to place your cursor after the
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