Changing Your Display Name in Email Programs
Posted: June 29, 2021
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There are many webmail programs (Gmail, Outlook, etc.) available to choose from. For the most part, they're pretty straightforward and don't have a ton of bells and whistles to get in the way of them just working. One thing that you can do to make both incoming and outgoing emails a little more personal is to change your display name. It doesn't necessarily have to be your actual name – it can be a business name or whatever else you'd like it to be. It's easier than you think to change it, and it can make your emails more recognizable to those on the receiving end.
Ian Paul, contributor to
PCWorld, explains how to change your display name in five email programs.
Whenever you receive an email in your Gmail
inbox you don’t see the address associated with that account, but the name of the sender. The same thing happens when
you send an email: your name shows up in their inbox. It makes everything look nicer and more personal, and it’s all thanks to the email display name setting. For personal accounts your display name can be anything you want. If your name has changed, or you have other reasons for changing it, changing your display name to something else is very simple.
Here’s how to change your display name in Gmail, Outlook, AOL Mail, Yahoo! Mail, and Proton Mail.
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