Assign speed dial number to button on Norstar phone

If you a have a Norstar phone system and you have a phone with some extra buttons on there doing nothing, you've probably wondered if you could assign a speed dial number to one. The answere is YES.

Now, in proper Nortel terms assigning a number to a button is called AUTODIAL. And, Autodial comes in two varieties - External Autodial and Internal Autodial. For this discussion, we'll focus on External Autodial.

First, what buttons can be programmed? Well, if you have a 7310 (not sure? try looking on the bottom side of the phone), you should have at the top of the phone a set of 4 x 3 buttons about 1/2" x 1" big. All those buttons can be assigned as AutoDial buttons. If you don't have a 7310, then your choices are limited. See the video for more on this.

Anyway, the way the assigning of a number is done is by pressing FEATURE * 1. Then press the button to be assigned. Then dial the digits and press OK (you'll see the word OK) in the LCD screen.

Here' s the video that shows you step-by-step:

Entering Configuration Programing mode

A little experiment here. I'm going to show you with a Video how to enter the Norstar programming mode at the CONFIG level.

*** CAUTION: unlike the ADMIN programming which is fairly benign that I showed you in an earlier blog, the CONFIGURATION programing mode has the potential to de-stabilize your system if you are in there making changes without the proper knowledge or guidance.

Here's the video: