Provide a feature to Customize Account Names for email accounts configured in Microsoft Outlook 2016
Provide a feature to Customize Account Names for email accounts configured in Microsoft Outlook 2016 maintaining case as well as re-arrange their order in navigation pane. similar to Windows 10 Mail app. Also It would be helpful for those who are visual to have the option to change the background color of each mailbox, (Inbox, Sent, and Trash), to avoid confusion when quickly navigating between them.
Nicholas D. Johnson
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Rick van Dijk
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Having access to over three Office 365 accounts it would be great if this would be possible once again.
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Michele
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I have three IMAP accounts configured in Outlook. I need these to have meaningful labels and not the full email address which is quite lengthy. I have the accounts set up with the correct names but Outlook won't show that in the left pane anymore. I am using Outlook 365.
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Anonymous
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Please reinstate this feature. Theres no reason to have removed the option in the first place. Thank you
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Lavkesh Dwivedi
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This simple feature is missing. It should be added and is needed for people with multiple accounts. Really surprised missing the simple account rename feature.
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AK
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How is this still not allowed? Please add this feature...!
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Ekevoo Jouag’iagn
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Remarkably unhelpful to have variants of outlook_2750CBAE2F000XYZ@outlook.com in the accounts list
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John
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Changing the display name of an Exchange account only as it appears in the left hand pane of the Outlook 2016 desktop application is what I and others would find very useful.
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Andy
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This feature, previously available other ways, is needed. With this it is very difficult for end users to differentiate between their email accounts. If we want to 'do secret' i.e. have IT be just hocus pocus, leave it as it is. If we want to make our computers easier to use, we need this change. Remember, our users pay our bills.
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Justin commented
Used to be able to change this with MFCMAPI, and while this is still possible it reverts back every few days. Please give us the option to customize account names!
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Mucky
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So annoying that this is still not implemented after such a long time. We really need this, everything is is not professional.
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Andre Polykanine
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Please add this feature as there are people with lengthy first and/or last names like me, and there is not so comfortable to deal with such display names. Thanks!
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Anonymous
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Basic and needed :)
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aspears82@live.co.uk
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I don't understand why this feature isn't built into Outlook 2016 but I'm sure there are many people like myself who have multiple Exchange accounts and being able to rename accounts to a shortened and purposeful name would be helpful. Can't imagine why this could be hard to implement especially since I can rename non-Microsoft accounts.
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Anonymous
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I work a lot on a laptop. I like the fact I was able IN THE PAST to change the account names to my liking (which is way shorter than my email addresses). Why can't you give us that feature return (I refer to Exchange servers specifically). Even the MFCMAPI Method is a realtively easy way to change the account names. If you want to be customer focused, you must allow users to change account names in their Outlook 2016/365 and beyond.
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Anonymous
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please provide this feature. It seems like such a small, simple thing to add and makes a huge imapct.
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Anonymous
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Why has this feature be removed? I have a office 365 account and this is my displayed account name (some characters changed for privacy reasons):
outlook_F3C4AE13CD85E35X@outlook.com
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Anonymous
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Why does this feature keep disappearing? This make no sense, it is like going backwards. Provide a feature to Customize Account Names for email accounts configured in Microsoft Outlook
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Anonymous
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Provide a feature to Customize Account Names for email accounts configured in Microsoft Outlook 2016
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Anonymous
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The world needs this feature. Make this happen Microsoft!!!
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Jim
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I don't understand why this feature isn't built into Outlook in the first place. I'm sure there are many others like myself that manage a number of Exchange accounts (6, for me) and being able to give each account a short, unique and description name would be helpful. Can't imagine it would be that hard to implement.
