Lots of our customers have asked
us to write a "Panasonic for Dummies"
book, a lite version of the heavy-duty manuals that come with the phone systems and voice
processors. We don't think our customers are dummies. Most of you are quite
smart. The manuals are DUMB.
Panasonic's manuals are inconsistent from product to product. There are bad
translations from Japanese to English. Important instructions can be easily missed, or
hard to find. Some features have names that don't indicate what the features
do. The table of contents is less than logical (information on Holding
a call is in the "C" section, information on Locking a phone is in the "E"
section.).
This page is our attempt to make life easier for you.
(The book
cover above is a fake.
CLICK for
real "dummies" books.)
■MOST
IMPORTANT ADVICE: use good
surge protection on the AC power and on every phone line!
■SECOND
MOST IMPORTANT ADVICE: put
passwords on every voice mailbox, including 998 and 999. Passwords should be
controlled by the company owner or manager, not by individual mailbox users.
■THIRD
MOST IMPORTANT ADVICE: put a
list of passwords in at least 17 places. One particularly good spot is on the
inside of a kitchen cabinet door.
