--- title: "Get started: your profile and settings" slug: "uc-get-started-your-profile-and-settings" updated: 2026-07-22T15:08:52Z published: 2026-07-23T10:07:46Z canonical: "help.8x8.com/uc-get-started-your-profile-and-settings" --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.8x8.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Get started: your profile and settings Once you log in to **8x8 Work for Desktop**, you can instantly begin personalizing your **8x8 Work** experience. If you have questions, [see our FAQs on getting started with **8x8 Work for Desktop**](/documentation/docs/faq-get-started)! ## Features - [Navigate the application interface](/documentation/docs/tour-the-8x8-work-for-desktop-interface): Collaborate more efficiently than ever with your colleagues and external contacts via phone, chat, meetings, and more! - [**Simplify navigation with site map**](/documentation/docs/use-the-site-map-to-navigate-the-8x8-work-for-desktop): View a complete overview of all features and sections in one place for easier access to every part of the application. - [Use and manage your keyboard shortcuts](/documentation/docs/use-and-manage-keyboard-shortcuts): Make calls and perform tasks more quickly via convenient keyboard combinations! - [Set up your presence status](/documentation/docs/set-your-presence-status): Let your contacts know if you are available to communicate at a glance, and **contact directory**view your colleagues' availability at any time. - [Set up your profile image](/documentation/docs/set-your-profile-image): Put a face to your name in the , and spot your colleagues more easily in the app. - [Select your Caller ID](/documentation/docs/select-caller-id): If you need to stay anonymous during external calls, or if you use multiple Caller IDs, you can switch between them at any time. - [Set up call forwarding](/documentation/docs/set-up-call-forwarding): Going on vacation, or busy with a time-sensitive task? You can simply set up call forwarding to redirect incoming calls as needed. - [**Activate the Sales & Account Workspace tool (Beta)**](/documentation/docs/sales-and-account-workspace): Try a brand new 8x8 experience optimized for your sales & account engagement workflows, focused on high-value long-term deals & relationships. - **Set up how 8x8 Work for Desktop is displayed** - You can personalize the general settings of your app, including the app theme, the launch location of the app, and whether the messages tab opens multiple chat windows. - [Set up your audio and video devices](/documentation/docs/set-up-audio-and-video): Enhance your calling and **8x8 Meet** experience by selecting which audio and video devices to use for **8x8 Work**. - [**Setup call waiting**](/documentation/docs/set-up-call-waiting-tone#set-call-waiting-tone): You can choose to toggle the call waiting tone on/off. - [Set up notifications](/documentation/docs/set-up-notifications): Keep yourself posted on new communications by setting up notifications for calls, chats, faxes, and voicemails. - [**Set up the noise suppression level for microphone input**](/documentation/docs/set-up-the-noise-suppression-level-for-microphone-input#set-noise-suppression-level): You can control the noise suppression for your microphone input. - [**Enable call hang-up tone**](/documentation/docs/enable-call-hang-up-tone): You can enable/disable the call hang-up tone. - [**Set up call handling tone**](/documentation/docs/set-up-call-handling-tone): While you are on a call, choose to play different tones for each interaction that occurs to easily recognize them. - **Set up your calendar and status**: You can synchronize your account with calendars, configure the calendar features, including event reminders, or update your status during a meeting based on calendar events. - [**Link your contacts with 8x8 Work**](/documentation/docs/workd-import-contacts): Add all your Microsoft, Google or Outlook contacts with the **8x8 Work**, grouped under **My Contacts** directory. - [**View call info pop-up**](/documentation/docs/view-caller-info-pop-up): If your organization keeps track of customers on a site or in an application, you can configure the app to bring up additional information on the call number in your browser. - **Set up your voicemail**: Add new greetings for people outside and inside the company. - [**Organize meetings**](/documentation/docs/set-up-your-meetings): Configure your calendar, add resources to Salesforce, secure your meeting space, and adjust moderator settings. Enable a minimised view for when the window is not in focus, and set how meetings launch in the app or a new window. You can also activate Giphy integration in the meeting reactions menu and prompt users to start recording upon joining the meeting. - [Verify your emergency address](/documentation/docs/verify-your-emergency-address): To better alert emergency services of your location when you make an emergency call, you can verify your emergency address in **8x8 Work**. - [**Configure voicemail settings**](/documentation/docs/workd-access-voicemail): View and listen to your voicemails online, have them delivered to your email box, or access them by phone. - [**Setup hold music**](/documentation/docs/set-up-hold-music#top): Set up the hold music your callers hear if you put them on hold.