The Comstar User and Attendant's Guide is designed to help you
use your telephone's features to your best advantage.
Terms you'll need to know
The following terms will
help you understand some of the instructions in this guide.
- Attendant
- A receptionist or other person responsible for answering
incoming calls.
- Dialpad
- The numbered keys on your telephone, including the # and *.
- Function buttons
- The buttons or keys on your telephone that allow you to press a single
button to make conference calls, program your telephone, use the speakerphone
and others.
- Handset
- The telephone receiver that you use to listen and speak.
- Intercom calls
- The calls you make to other telephones inside your organization.
- Line buttons
- The buttons you use to select the outside line you want to use to make
a call.
- Line lamps
- The small lights next to the line buttons on your telephone.
- Speakerphone
- A built-in feature of your telephone that lets you speak and hear a conversation
without using the handset. The following telephones have a built-in speakerphone:
16-button, 30-button, and 42-button..
- Station
- An individual telephone set.
- Station buttons
- The buttons you use to select other extensions in the system.
- Switchhook
- On the single-line telephone, the button in the handset cradle.
- 64-button DSS/BLF
- The 64-button accesory that contains 60 telephone line buttons and lamps,
and four function buttons. DSS/BLF stands for Direct Station select/Busy Lamp
Field.