Your Phone
If a menu item has an index number, you can enter the index number with the keypad to select the item.
Softkey, Line, and Feature Buttons
You can interact with the features on your phone in several ways:
• Softkeys, located below the screen, give you access to the function displayed on the screen above the
• Feature and line buttons, located on either side of the screen, give you access to phone features and
Feature and line buttons illuminate to indicate status:
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Your administrator can set up some functions as softkeys or as feature buttons. You can also access some
functions with softkeys or the associated hard button.
softkey. The softkeys change depending on what you are doing at the time. The More ... softkey shows
you that more functions are available.
phone lines.
◦Feature buttons—Used for features such as Speed dial or Call pickup, and to view your status on
another line.
◦Line buttons—Used to initiate or answer a call or resume a held call. You can also use a line key
to open and close the call session window, and to navigate through the call session window. Open
the call session window to see the calls on the line.
Green—Line is idle.
Red, steady—Line is active or in use.
Red, flashing—Line is on hold or there is an inbound call.
Amber, steady—Line is unregistered (cannot be used).
Cisco IP Phone 6800 Series Multiplatform Phones User Guide
Softkey, Line, and Feature Buttons
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