Avaya 9500 Series User Manual

You can assign a name to your extension, up to 20 characters long. The name is then displayed on the phone and also on
other extensions when you make or receive calls. 

1. Press the Admin soft key on the display.

· During a call, press the 

 PHONE button to display the Admin soft key option. If you access phone

administration during a call, only the   SPEAKER,   MUTE and 

 HEADSET buttons still affect the

connected call. 

2. Use the 

 up or down 

 arrow buttons to scroll to Telephone Programming. Press Select.

3. Use the 

 up or down 

 arrow buttons to scroll the display to Extension Name. When displayed, press Select.

4. The current setting is displayed. To remove the current name, press Clear. 

5. To enter a new name, press Enter and dial the characters using the dial pad buttons. When finished press OK. 

· Enter a character by pressing the indicated button until that character is displayed. Accented versions of

the characters are also shown. If you pause more than 1 second after press a button, the cursor will move
onto the next space. 

1.,@

abc2

def3

ghi4

jkl5

mno6

pqrs7

tuv8

wxyz9

*

Space 0

#

· The first character and the first character after a space are automatically capitalized. 

· Use the   left and right   arrows keys to move the cursor. Press Bksp to delete the character before the

cursor.

· Do not use punctuation characters such as #, ?, /, -, _ and , in the name. Start the name with an

alphabetic character. Note that the name is case sensitive and must be unique. Non-English languages do
not offer accented characters.

· Exit phone administration by pressing the 

 PHONE button. Alternatively use the Back button to move to

another menu.