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WHAT IS PERFECT VOICE ANSWER?-----------------------------------------1
ACCESSING THE SYSTEM---------------------------------------------------------2
QUICK SETUP-----------------------------------------------------------------------3
USER MODE OVERVIEW ---------------------------------------------------------4
(MAIN MENU)----------------------------------------------------------------------4
USER MODE TIPS -----------------------------------------------------------------5
MESSAGE MANAGEMENT--------------------------------------------------------6
MESSAGE MANAGEMENT TIPS -------------------------------------------------8
LISTENING TO MESSAGES -------------------------------------------------------9 User
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FORWARD MENU---------------------------------------------------------------- 10 ?
SEND MENU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11
SENDING A SINGLE MESSAGE TO MULTIPLE DESTINATIONS ----------- 13
SENDING A MESSAGE TO AN AMIS USER---------------------------------- 14
CALL MANAGEMENT ----------------------------------------------------------- 15
RECORD ADDITIONAL PERSONAL GREETINGS ---------------------------- 16
LIST MANAGEMENT ------------------------------------------------------------ 17
WHAT IS A PERSONAL DISTRIBUTION LIST? ------------------------------ 17
NOTIFY MANAGEMENT* ------------------------------------------------------- 18
HOW CAN PERFECT VOICE ANSWER NOTIFY? -------------------------- 18
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USER SETUP ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 19

What is Perfect Voice Answer?

Perfect Voice Answer, an automated attendant/voice messaging system,
functions like your own personal receptionist. Depending on how your system
is configured, Perfect Voice Answer can take your calls when you do not want
to be disturbed, record messages from callers when you are unavailable, and
much more. Perfect Voice Answer provides the best utilization of current
technology and makes more productive use of the telephone.



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Accessing the System
As a User, you access the Perfect Voice Answer system to listen to your messages,
change your password, record your personal greeting or perform any other User
functions. To access the system in this manner, you must log in to User Mode.
Call Perfect Voice
Call Perfect Voice Answer:
To access Perfect Voice Answer as a User, call it just as you
Answer
would call anyone else in your company with a telephone
From inside: ________
extension number. Your System Administrator can tell you what
From outside: _______
the Perfect Voice Answer extension number is. Dial this number
when you want to call Perfect Voice Answer from inside your
company's facilities. You may also call Perfect Voice Answer from
outside your company's facilities by dialing a 7- or 10-digit number
(i.e. from your home telephone). Your System Administrator can
also tell you what this telephone number is.
Enter System
Enter System Access Code
After Perfect Voice Answer answers your call, you hear your
Access Code
company's greeting, also known as the main greeting. If you want
System Access Code:
to listen to your messages, change your password, record your
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personal greeting or perform any other User Mode functions, you
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first need to enter the System Access code. This is the number that
you or anyone else in your company dials from the main greeting
to log in to User Mode (request access to User features on the
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system). The access code is 7.
Enter Your User ID
Enter Your User ID
After you enter the System Access Code, you are prompted to
enter your User ID. The User ID is what others dial to reach you
or leave you a message in your message box. Your System
Administrator should have already reserved a User ID (User
Identification number) for you. Your User ID is often the same
number as your telephone extension number. If you are not sure,
check with your System Administrator.
Enter Your Password
Enter Your
After you enter the System Access Code and your User ID, you
Password
are prompted to enter your password. Until you change it, your
password is the same as your User ID. As the name implies, this
number controls access to your message box. You are prompted
for your password each time you access your message box. To
keep your message box secure, you should change it to a
number that only you know.
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Your first menu is Message Management. To access all other menus, press 9 to back
out to the Main Menu.

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Quick Setup
The first time you log in to the system, you are automatically placed into Quick
Setup. Even if you are not familiar with voice messaging, it should take no more than
a few minutes to complete Quick Setup. Quick Setup helps you to choose a
password, record your name, record your personal greeting, and spell your name for
Directory Assistance. Quick Setup asks you to confirm your input for each step
before proceeding to the next step, so even if you get it wrong, you get a change to
try again.
You must complete Quick Setup before you can receive message. Following is a
summary of the four steps of Quick Setup. It may help you to review this section
before going through Quick Setup the first time.


Choose
Choose Your Password
Your password may be any one to eight digit number. To keep your message
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box secure, you should choose a password that only you know. Although your
System Administrator can change your password, only you know what it is.
You are responsible for remembering it.

Record Your
Record Your Name
Your name recording should only contain your spoken name, so after the tone,
Name
speak only your name. For example, Fred Smith's name recording would be
recorded simply as "Fred Smith". As soon as you are finished speaking your
name, press the pound sign (#) on your telephone to terminate the recording.

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Record Your
Record Your Personal Greeting
Your personal greeting is heard by others if you are not available to answer their
Personal
call. While listening to your personal greeting, a caller may select any other
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Greeting
extension by simply entering it. A caller may skip your personal greeting and
begin recording a message by pressing the pound key (#). In addition to
identifying who you are, your personal greeting may also tell the caller about
other options. For example, Mary wants to make sure callers can call the
operator and have her paged. Her personal greeting may be:
"Hi, this is Mary Smith. I'm sorry I missed your call. If you want to leave me a
message, press pound or wait for the tone. Or, you may press 0 and have me
paged."
To save time, write down your personal greeting before recording it. After you
have finished recording your personal greeting, press the pound key (#) on your
telephone.

List Your
List your Name with Directory Assistance
Directory Assistance offers callers who do not know your User ID the option of
Name with
"spelling out" your name by pressing the telephone keys that correspond to your
Directory
last name. For example, a caller wishing to reach Fred Smith from Directory
Assistance would press 76484. In this step, you are asked to spell out your
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name, just as a caller would from Directory Assistance. If you wish to remain
unlisted with Directory Assistance, simply the # key when prompted to spell out
your name.

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After completing Quick Setup, you hear the Main Menu options. All subsequent logins place you in
Message Management, where you may listen to messages. To access all other User menus, press
9 to back out to the Main Menu.

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User Mode Overview
(Main Menu)

From the Main menu, you may select any of the following options by pressing the
appropriate key on your telephone keypad. Most of these options, in turn, lead to
other menus with their own sets of options.

1 Message Management
From Message Management, you can listen to your messages, send a new
message to another User (or a list of Users), forward a message, and erase
messages. You also can review or erase a message that you sent to another
user before it is listened to.
w Call Management
Call Management enables you to record your personal greeting, select an
alternate personal greeting and change the Call Blocking setting of your
message box.
e List Management
List Management, helps you define and manage up to ten private distribution
lists. A distribution list is a list of other Users to whom you can easily send
messages.
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From Notify Management, you can enable or disable notification of new
messages.
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t User Setup
From User Setup, you can change your password, record your name, change
the order in which your messages are played, and define your name spelling
with Directory Assistance.
u Quick Setup
Quick Setup allows you to go back through the new User setup tutorial.
Quick Setup walks you through changing your password, recording your
name and personal greeting and listing yourself in Directory Assistance.
i System Date And Time
This option plays the current system date and time
o or p Log Out
These options log you out of User mode and return you to the main system
greeting.

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User Mode Tips

Logging into the System:

· When logging into the system, it is normally not necessary to wait
for each prompt before entering the information requested by that
prompt.

Logging out of User Mode:
· From almost anywhere in User Mode, you may press p to log
out of User Mode and return to the main greeting.

Returning to the Previous Menu:
· From any level, you may press o and return to the previous
menu level. If you are in the Main Menu, pressing o logs you
out of User Mode and takes you back to the main greeting.

Replaying a Menu:
· From any menu, you may press * to replay the menu.

Skipping Ahead to the Next Step:
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· Pressing # also signals to the system that you want to skip
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ahead to the next step. For example, if you are listening to the
prefix of a message that was forwarded to you, pressing #
skips directly to the forwarded message itself.
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Recording Messages and Greetings:
· If you are calling from a quiet environment, you may simply stop
talking when you have finished recording a message. The silence
marks the end of your message and will be trimmed from the final
recording. If you are recording from a noisy environment, you
should press # when you have finished. These rules apply to
any recording, including your name file and personal greeting.

· It is good practice to change your personal greeting to indicate that
you are out of the office. Personal greetings may be pre-recorded
to handle different situations.

Directory Assistance:
· If you do not know someone's User ID, you may enter the
directory assistance code (o ). You will be prompted to spell
out their name instead.
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Message Management
q Play Next Message
Play your next message with the time stamp.
w Replay Current Message
Replay the current message, including the time stamp.
e Advanced Options
After selecting this option, the following advanced options are available.
q Play Next Message
Automatically saves the current message and plays the next message.
e Quick Messaging
Record and send a message to another User without ringing their
telephone or hearing their personal greeting. It prompts you for the
destination and then immediately begins recording your message. This
method of sending a message requires a minimum amount of key strokes.
r Erase All Messages
After selecting this option, all messages are marked to be erased and will
be erased upon exit from User Mode.
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Selecting this option unmarks all messages that were marked for erasure.
This allows you to exit User Mode without deleting any messages that
were marked during that session.
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y Check Unheard Sent Messages
This option allows you to check the status of the messages that you
have sent to other Users and listen to and delete the message if it has not
been heard by the recipient.
u Play First Message
This option immediately plays back the first message in playback order.
i Play Saved Messages
This option immediately goes to playback of the first saved message in
playback order.

r Erase Current Message & Play Next Message
Erases the message currently being listened to and immediately begins
playback of the next message in playback order.
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t Forward Current Message (See Forward Menu)
Forward the current message to another User or a list of Users. After selecting
this option, you are placed into the Forward menu from which the following
options are available.

y Send a New Message (See Send Menu)
Send a new message to another User or a list of Users. After selecting this
option, you are placed into the Send menu from which the following options
are available.

u Replay the Current Message
This option works just like the rewind control on a tape player. After selecting
this option, playback of the message is resumed a few seconds before the
current point.
i Power Playback
Play all messages. This enables you to listen to all of your messages with a
single button. Selecting option e takes you out of Power Play.
Note that this option is only available while listening to the Message
Management menu. Pressing i during message playback moves forward
within the message (works like fast-forward on a tape player).
o Return to Main Menu
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This option returns you to the Main menu.
p Log Out
This option logs you out of User mode and returns you to the main system
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greeting.
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Message Management Tips

Message Playback Order:

You may configure the order in which
your messages are played back to be the same as the order in which

they were received (first-in-first-out), or in the opposite order (last-
in-first-out).

This is done from User Setup.



Forwarding Messages: To forward a single message to more than
one User or distribution list without re-recording the forward prefix,
simply re-select the destination and forward the message.

Sending Messages: To send a single message more than one User
without re-recording the message, refer to "Sending a Single
Message or Send a Message to Multiple Destinations".

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The following options are available only during Message Playback:
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u Move Back Within a Message
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This option works just like the rewind control on a tape player. Pressing u
one time rewinds the message five seconds from the current point. You may
press u multiple times to rewind to an earlier point in the message.

i Move Forward Within Message
This option works just like the fast-forward control on a tape player.
Pressing i one time forwards the message five seconds past the current
point. You may press i multiple times to fast-forward to a later point in
the message.

* Pause Message Playback
This option works just like the pause control on a tape player. After
selecting this option, playback of the message is suspended for a few
seconds or until you press * again.

# Skip to Next Message Component
This option allows you to skip to the end of a message component. For
example, while listening to a message that was forwarded to you, press
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# during playback of the forwarding prefix to skip it and begin playback
of the forwarded message itself.

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Listening to Messages

Log in to User Mode
You have __ new and
__saved messages...
Listen to your first
message
To play next message, press 1;
Replay message just heard, press 2;
Erase message just heard, press 4;
Forward message just heard, press5;
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Reply or send new message, press 6;
Replay from end, press 7;
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Power play, press 8.

Select
Keep
Erase
q desired r
current
current
option*
message
message
Next Message Plays
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*These options are available during or after message playback.

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t Forward Menu

q Forward Message and Return to Message Menu
Deliver the forwarded message. This option may be used only after you
have selected a forwarding destination. You are returned to the Message
Menu.
w Record Message Prefix
Record a separate message that will be heard by the destination User or
Users just before the forwarded message. Although not required, it is
recommended that you record a prefix when forwarding a message. If
you re-select this option, your previous recording is overwritten.
e Review Message Prefix
Replay the forwarding prefix if you have recorded it.
r Forward With Special Delivery Options
After selecting this option, you are placed in the following menu, after
which you are sent back to the "Forward Current Message" menu.
q Send Message with Options*
Send the message after selecting one or more of the special delivery
options that follow.
w Set Private
The destination User is not allowed to forward your message to any
other Users.
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You are sent a return message when the destination User listens to
your message.
r Set Urgent
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Sending a message as Urgent places your message in front of non-
urgent messages in the destination User's message box.
t Set Future Delivery
You may set a message you have recorded to be sent at some future
date. You will be prompted to select the future delivery date.
i Reset Delivery Options
This option allows you to redefine the delivery options that you
have selected.
t Append to Message Prefix
Continue recording the prefix, adding to the end of the current prefix
recording.
y Select Personal List Number**
Select the list of Users to whom the message will be forwarded.
u Select User ID**
Select the User to whom the message will be forwarded.
i Select Network User ID**
Select the Network User to whom the message will be forwarded.

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*You are returned to the Forward menu where you may select another destination.
**You may override your selection if you re-select any of these options.

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y Send Menu

q Send Message and Return to Message Menu
Deliver the recorded message. This option may be used only after you
have selected a forwarding destination. You are returned to the Message
Menu.
w Record Message
Record a message to be heard by the destination User or Users. If you re-
select this option, your previous recording is overwritten.
e Review Message
Replay the message you have recorded.
r Send With Delivery Options
After selecting this option, you are placed in the following menu, after
which you are returned to the "Send a New Message" menu.
q Send Message with Options*
Send the message after selecting one or more of the special delivery
options that follow.
w Set Private
The destination User is not allowed to forward your message to any User
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e Set Certified
You are sent a return message when the destination User listens to
your message.
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r Set Urgent
Sending a message as Urgent places your message in front of non-
urgent messages in the destination User's message box.
t Set Future Delivery
You may set a message you have recorded to be sent at some future
date. You will be prompted to select the future delivery date.
i Reset Delivery Options
This option allows you to redefine the delivery options that you
have selected.
t Append to Message
Continue recording, adding to the end of the current recording.
y Select Personal List Number**
Select the list of Users to whom the message will be sent.
u Select User ID**
Select the User to whom the message will be sent.
i Select Network User ID**
Select the Network User to whom the message will be sent.
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Sending a Single Message or Send a
Message to Multiple Destinations

To send a single message to more than one User or distribution list without re-
recording the message:


Select y to send a new message.


Select w

to record your message.


Record your message and press# .


Select Destination Type


Pressy to

Pressu to
Pressi to
User
select Personal

select User ID.
select Network
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List Number.
User ID.*


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Enter destination.


Send message to
Send with delivery options or
selected destination

add destinations
Press q to

Press r to
send message
send with delivery
and exit.
options.
Press q to
send message.
Return to Message
Menu
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* The Network User ID is the destination User
ID on the remote site.

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Sending a Message to an AMIS User




Select y to send a new message.
Select w to record your message.
Record your message and press# .
Pressi to select Network ID.
Enter Remote User ID & press # .
If you know the
If you do not know the
site number
site number
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Enter the site
Press # for a listing of sites.
number and
press # .
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AMIS Site Directory
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First Site Current Last Site Select Specific Exit
Next Previous Site
o to accept.
You have selected . . .
Select q to send message.
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Call Management

q Play the Current Personal Greeting
Play back your current personal greeting.
w Change Call Blocking*
Change your Call Blocking setting. If Call Blocking is enabled, callers who
select your User ID will go straight to your personal greeting without trying
your extension. (This feature is not available for Outside User mailboxes.)
r Select Next Personal Greeting
Select which of your personal greetings will play when you are not available.
For example, if your current personal greeting is number one, pressing 4
causes personal greeting number two to play when you are not available. If
you press 4 again, the standard system prompt for leaving a message will play.
Pressing 4 once more causes personal greeting number one to play.
t Record Current Personal Greeting
This option prompts you to record the personal greeting that is currently
playing.
o Return to Main Menu
This option returns you to the Main menu.
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This option logs you out of User mode and returns you to the main system
greeting.
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Replay Menu Options

* If an option is not available to you, it will not be spoken.
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Record Additional Personal Greetings
If you have completed Quick Setup, you have already recorded personal greeting
number one. It is good practice to record additional personal greetings to handle
different situations. For example, a different personal greeting may play for the
times you are out of the office for appointments versus the times you are in the
office but away from your desk. You may pre-record the additional greetings and
select them from the Call Management menu as needed. It is not necessary to re-
record the same personal greeting every time you are out of the office.


Log into User Mode


Press o for the Main Menu
To select:
Message Management, press 1;
Call Management, press2 . . . .
Press w for
Call Management
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Block all calls, press 2;
Select next personal greeting, press 4;
Record current personal greeting, press 5.
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Press q to Determine
Current Personal Greeting
Personal Greeting Number __ is
"Hi, this is Joe. . . "
Scroll to
Select
Record
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current
personal
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personal
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