Google Voice Home Page

- Once you have your

Google Voice

number you need to start association phone numbers with it.

- You add the number of one of your existing phones, say a cell phone.

- You determine is that phone receives SMS text messages.

- You also determine if that

phone has direct access to your voicemail

when you call your Google Voice number.

- You can give access with a PIN, without one, or require that you press the star (*) key during the greeting.

- You also determine when a phone rings.

- You can set a phone to ring on weekdays and/or weekends.

- You can set a phone to never ring on weekdays and/or weekends.

- You can create a custom schedule.

- If you wished, for example, you could have 6 phone numbers associated with Google Voice and only have one phone that rings.

- When you're done click Save and you're shown a verification number that's two digits.

- Click Connect and

Google Voice

will call the phone number.

- When you answer you'll hear a message asking you to enter the two digits shown on your screen.

- Enter the digits and that phone is now verified for use with Google Voice.