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changing names by guinan on 08-20-2004 at 08:41 PM

Hi y'all !
Some people insist on using whole sentences of rubbish as their name in msn-messenger:blah:. I'm sure I once found a way to enter their real names in messenger+, but I can't for the life of me find it anymore!:wall:
Can anyone help me please???
Guinan


RE: changing names by Tochjo on 08-20-2004 at 08:51 PM

When you use the Custom Names feature of Plus!, you can set a custom name for them, which will show up in your contact list (and conversation window, if you want).

Go to Plus! > Preferences > Contact List > Custom Names and change it. You can use tags as (!N) for your contact's display name, and (!M) for their email addresses.

A limitation of this feature is that emoticons will not show up in your contact's display names in a conversation window anymore. A way to avoid this is to use custom names without emoticons, and using them in conversation windows too. It's either that, or not using custom names, or dealing with it ;)


RE: changing names by guinan on 08-20-2004 at 08:59 PM

Thanks so much for your reaction Tochjo, I knew I was overlooking it as I had found it once before, how blind can a person be...