how to change your name on microsoft account

To change the mailbox name of a POP3 account see Changing the display name of a mailbox or pst-file. What does changing the account name do?Ĭhanging the account name will affect what is shown in the From field and its dropdown list when you have the From field enabled or multiple accounts configured in Outlook.įor IMAP accounts, changing the account name will also affect the mailbox name in the Folder List (after restarting Outlook). Unfortunately, you can only change the display name for POP3 and IMAP accounts in the mail account configuration screen.įor Exchange accounts (on-premises, Exchange Online and ), the account name will match the email address. By default, Outlook seems to name them after my email address which is quite long.įor all accounts, the first part is just my name and only the domain part is different (one from, one from Gmail and one from my company’s domain).Ĭan I shorten this to for instance “” or “Gmail” or even make them a bit more descriptive like “personal” and “business”?

I have multiple email accounts configured in Outlook.

How to change your name on microsoft account