Although it sounds strange, it is possible to change the email name on many platforms, including of course the one that concerns us in this opportunity as it is Outlook, element that allows to give a new personalization to the account.
What reasons could there be for changing the name to the email address? It could be that someone created the email for you and was left with a very long or somewhat strange alias that is not what you really want. Or worse yet, that it has some too glaring spelling errors, which make it unethical to put on a job application.
However, although the name change is possible There are several factors that you should take into account before making the modification. Once you analyze them, you can take each of the steps that we describe in this course.
What to keep in mind before renaming my email address in Outlook?
Now that you no longer want to have that name in your email that you created in adolescence and want to customize it according to your new habits, it is important that you remember the following before changing it:
- Information from social networks will be lost: If you have it linked to Facebook or Instagram, to name just two cases, the data will be lost and you will have to create a new record.
- Access to your bank details: The same happens if the financial information reaches your email address, you will have to go to an office and make the respective changes so as not to be misinformed.
- Let your contacts know: It is possible that with the new name the emails will reach the spam tray, as your identification as a trusted user is not recognized. Therefore, you must notify them in advance of your new address.
- Change the address in your services: If you are affiliated with digital services, update your new address to avoid problems when entering.
- Don’t make the switch abruptly: If you already have time with the old address, use a notice period before you start using the new name.
Nevertheless, Emails you have already received will remain in your inbox, although the answers after 48 hours of the change, will arrive with the new name.
Learn how to rename your Outlook email address
From this moment, the information you will see will help you change your email address in Outlook, giving it a new personal touch and having the option of completely eliminating it from the server, without the possibility of recovering it later.
Let’s see the steps to follow:
- The first thing you should do is sign in to your Outlook account with email address and password.
- Once you enter, you will go to the upper right bar where your profile picture is located.
- A small window is displayed, you must click where it says “My account”.
- Various functions are shown, you are going to go to “My information” and you are going to open it.
- There you will see all the personal information from your Outlook account.
- The first line shows the current email address, of which we are going to change the name.
- To start with the change, we open “Manage how to log in to Microsoft.”
- By clicking, you ask us verify identity. This can be in three ways. One through the alternative email, with a text message or finally by entering the password.
- In most cases, a code is sent to the alternate email or an SMS to the mobile phone.
- If you don’t have any of the optionsYou can create it in the menu that appears on the screen to verify that it is you who does the operation.
- In case you have an alternative email, write the address in the following window and click on “Send code”.
- Enter your alternative email address that you have placed, You copy the code and paste it into the Outlook window.
- Now click on “Check”.
- The pop-up window that opens has the name “Manage how you log in to Microsoft.”
- You search in “Account aliases” the option “Add email”.
- Here they invite you to create a new email address and add it in the form of aliases.
- Indicate the address you want to create and you put the ending Outlook.com.
- After typing, click “Add aliases”.
- In the next tab you already see created, now you must select where it says “Make main”.
- In the confirmation it asks you “Do you want to make this alias primary?”
- Mark the option “Yes”.
- In a few seconds it shows that it has become a main alias, that is, the address that will be displayed each time an email is started.
- It may take 48 hours for your new name to appear. You can delete the old address or leave it saved in Outlook, especially if you use it for other purposes.
- You can create other aliases to have them reserved for future opportunities.
- To run a test, you can log in with your new email name and password to see if the changes have been saved.
- At first it will ask you verify your identity again with the alternate email to which a security code will arrive.
- That code you must paste it in the confirmation tab.
- Once you do, you will see the new address is displayed, with the respective modifications.
- All emails will be displayed in the inbox and when writing a new message the new address will appear.