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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Ed
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Did another unexpected update just push out? now all my email accounts in outlook show the email address instead of the display name i had previously given. (the account settings say display name "Gmail" for example and on the Favorites and account list I am seeing the full jonsmith@gmail.com which i dont want
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Thomas Roets
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Was a feature in older version of Outlook, why break it?
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Kathryn LaRiviere
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I've migrated from one email provider to Outlook.com, but I can't change the mailbox name in Outlook. This is patently absurd!
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Jeremy de Rouw
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Using Outlook on Office 365 for business purpose. How unprofessional for my customers to see my name, rather than my business mail address - please add this feature!
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Anonymous
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Please add this. Should be simple to do
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Michel Casanova
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please add this feature.
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Viggo Stenbråten
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I would love this feature, thank you.
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Dave Price
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Need this feature adding back in ASAP please Microsoft!
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Charlie Wilson
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this is a basic requirement. i cannot believe that 2 years on and we still only have 522 votes. there was a workaround using MFCMAPI but even that does not work now. Please allow change to mailbox display name now!!
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Anonymous
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Allow the mailbox name to be changed or have it automatically change when the Primary Email address of the user changes.
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Erlee Del Orbe
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Obviously this needs to be added again.
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JON BUTLER
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Please add this back! My emails all begin with aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb@[c,d,e,f].com. I cannot tell the difference in them unless I move the navigation pane over so as to see the email domain name! Need this option!!!!
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Ann Williamson
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WHY would you remove the option to give my Inbox/account a "friendly name" rather than display my entire email address in Outlook? Please... return that option. It is absurd that anyone thought removing that feature would be an improvement.
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awanit
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HI..please enable account rename feature in outlook 365. This is required, so that we can use more than 2 exchange emails for different companies and don't want to show the email address of other company..thanks
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Nico Coetzee
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How hard can it be to understand why this is so important?? Please get to this feature.
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JohnF
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Why have Microsoft taken away this simple, convenient feature that is very useful to identify Exchange accounts when you have several? it still works for IMAP accounts in Office 365 Build 1909.
Please put it back! Thank you
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Daryl Ouellette
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This is an annoying problem for Systems Administrators. I was previously able to use MFC MAPI to fix the incorrect name in Outlook from a 365 account (for some reason it DOES NOT match the users name in Office 365 admin console NOR 365 exchange console).
Now it rapidly "blinks" back and forth between the incorrect name and the one that previously was corrected using MFC MAPI.
Microsoft - ALLOW YOUR PARTNERS/SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATORS THE ACCESS THEY PREVIOUSLY HAD, SO THAT WE CAN FIX RANDOM OFFICE 365 GLITCHES AND KEEP YOUR CUSTOMERS HAPPY FOR YOU!
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Robert MIlliner
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Throw my voice into the mix. Just make it possible. No need to do anything more than allow it to change. We don't need a button, or menu, or anything else. Just let us change it. The registry? Fine. Outlook's Options, or in the Profiles. We don't care. Just open it up. Gracias.
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Kees Gortmaker
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Please put the ability to list the mail accounts in the navigation back into the Outlook 2016/Office365 interface. We have several shared mailboxes that have very cryptic primary emailaddresses. In the past we used the more userfriendly displayname or the name we entered ourselves during outlook client configuration. This was perfect. What we have now is a downfall.
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Jim Mooney
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Please return the ability to provide custom account names and not override them with the primary email address. This worked much nicer before you took it away recently. What prompted this move BTW?
