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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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  • Nahush commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi can u pls help me my profile is owned by my school but i want to change my name there is no option for that pls help.ps also im using the destop teams app

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Zoom lets me edit how I would like my name displayed. It is different for different meetings and I want to be able to edit myself.

  • a commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    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.

  • Jeff Waters commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is low hanging fruit. You have a great platform that is somewhat ruined by all this extra text cluttering up the conversation.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    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.

  • 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

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