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Hello, I am new to these forums so please bear with me if I have posted this thread in the wrong catergory

I have seen screenshots of a leaked Windows Live Messenger plus, and unfortuneatly it is lacking the feature I most like it to have (a feature that is in the WLMP 3.62)

The feature is to make custom name contacts, but attach there msn name on the end. The default Windows Live Messenger custom name is not capable of doing this (as far as I am aware) and it was my favourite feature so i could still see my contacts names while knowing who they are instantly.

If you dont understand here's an example;

Contacts Current Name - "I Love School"

Windows Live Messenger Custom Name - "Mathew"

I would like it to read - "Mathew - I Love School"

so attaching there current msn name on the end while keeping my custom name at the start!!

As this feature was available in WLMP 3.62 I beleive it wouldn't be hard for Patchou to incorperate it into Windows Live Messenger Plus.

Thankyou Patchou, tell me if you think this can be done

Custom Name Feature is in WLM now so wasnt any need to have it in MPL

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Originally posted by Animal
Custom Name Feature is in WLM now so wasnt any need to have it in MPL

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but what hes saying is you can view the custom name and their msn name... wlm doesnt do this, but mp 3.62 could..

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Originally posted by M73A

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Originally posted by Animal
Custom Name Feature is in WLM now so wasnt any need to have it in MPL

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but what hes saying is you can view the custom name and their msn name... wlm doesnt do this, but mp 3.62 could..

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exactly right

I was looking for this feature with Messenger Plus! aswell, it currently isn't in the beta, but there may be a chance of it being done in a future version.

(It would be so much better, it annoys me hovering the peoples names in the contact list to read their names )

I totally agree, and am also hoping this feature will be added back (soon-ish)....

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Originally posted by CookieRevised here

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Originally posted by AaronG85
2. Now that WLM has the ability to rename contacts are you going to remove this feature from MP

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I'm not sure about this but as far as I'm concearned I hope not as the Plus! custom names work differently (it has more possebilities, think about the use of the (!N) and (!M) tags in custom names). But maybe this will be integrated in the WLM custom names by Plus!, dunno... So don't take my word on it, only time will tell.

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Cutom Names have been removed indeed from Messenger Plus! Live because of the new nickname feature of WLM. I couldn't add the feature like it was before as it would confuse many people but I'll keep on thinking for a good way to do this.

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Originally posted by Patchou
Cutom Names have been removed indeed from Messenger Plus! Live because of the new nickname feature of WLM. I couldn't add the feature like it was before as it would confuse many people but I'll keep on thinking for a good way to do this.

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Thankyou a lot Patchou, it is much appreciated by me and obviously many other users

Keep up the great work Patchou One feature missing, hundreds of other great ones are still living

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Originally posted by DevilFX
Keep up the great work Patchou One feature missing, hundreds of other great ones are still living

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Unfortunatly, the custom names is a very big one, especially since the (!N) and (!M) tag support was added.

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Originally posted by Patchou
Cutom Names have been removed indeed from Messenger Plus! Live because of the new nickname feature of WLM. I couldn't add the feature like it was before as it would confuse many people but I'll keep on thinking for a good way to do this.

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You most likely already thought about this, but maybe, somehow, adding the possebility that people could use the (!N) and (!M) tags inside Messenger's first name/last name fields?