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I want to edit my display name or give myself a nickname

When I @mention a team member it displays them as Last Name, First name which really interrupts the conversational flow. Slack lets me edit my display name.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    If Slack has this, why can't microsoft? Yet another reason to switch over to gmail or Slack. Microsoft continues to disappoint...

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is absolutely essential. It is clearly a hurdle on whether to use Microsoft Teams or a different tool, so it should also be an absolute priority for the developers.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    My organization (school) has assigned every student not with a name, but with a number. Supposedly, their intention was to protect the personal data of minors. So, I am running an e-class with 24 participants named "student 346", "student 347" and so on... It is ridiculous... I have to keep a printed form in front of me, just to know who is talking. If I could, at least, customize my contacts' names it would be easy, and would not violate the personal data protection legislations.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is ridiculous. I go by my middle name. No one recognizes my first name, so no one has absolutely any idea who I am in Microsoft Teams. This kind of thing is why Microsoft Teams is a joke compared to its competitors.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Not always we hace the ID that we want... very often this happens, and we get stuck with our last name. My name is not Zanella! :P

  • Yves commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We need to be able to customize the display name. with more 40 K users ,using last name first name is not convenient

  • Michael DePouw commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Supposedly this was implemented but I don't see how to change my display name. Maybe it is still rolling out? 🤔

    I know I have one account I'm a guess in and I my display name changed. 🤷‍♂️

    >Say hello to display names

    >Now, everyone gets a display name in Teams. Even people you chat with outside your organization. So, you'll no longer have to remember that long email address when looking for an old conversation, simply search for the person by name.

    Why isn't there a link in that w/ more details? An animated gif of the behavior?

  • Mike G commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It's baffling to see this kind of high-visibility low-hanging fruit go unresolved and, in this case, even unacknowledged for almost three years now. Even "Planned: targeted for fall 2025" would be better than no response at all. This seems like a management failure.

  • Ryan Elsenheimer commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is now almost 3 years and 322 votes in, and its still not done...Microsoft, sometimes you are so obtuse...

  • Reza commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Teams definitely lacks features like sorting contacts and choosing a customized name for contacts when we use it as a user. Some Telegram App features needs to be added to teams.

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