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.
Michael Dain
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I went to my profile, which is top right, not the very top right but up there, i have no photo so it is a circle with an old school "subbuteo" type image in it. I clicked on that. When that screen opened, almost at the very very top it said, "edit profile", and that was where I could change my display name.
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Jeff Waters
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This is low hanging fruit. You have a great platform that is somewhat ruined by all this extra text cluttering up the conversation.
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Paul
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Anonymous
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This is so Microsoft. They do have every position for a product but simply just can't get things right. They do need a good leader.
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kelvin
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I need this
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Gerhard Hoogterp
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Yeah!
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fthomas
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Please and Thank you!
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Anonymous
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If Slack has this, why can't microsoft? Yet another reason to switch over to gmail or Slack. Microsoft continues to disappoint...
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Sanjay
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Please fix this.
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Jordan
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How is this not a thing?!
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Anonymous
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No one in Microsoft listens to this request?
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Anonymous
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This would be hugely beneficial for our company!
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Anonymous
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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.
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Anonymous
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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.
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Anonymous
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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.
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Anonymous
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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
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Yves
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We need to be able to customize the display name. with more 40 K users ,using last name first name is not convenient
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Michael DePouw
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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?
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Mike G
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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.
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Amy E Dunbar
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I can't believe I can't change a formal first name to the name the person uses.
