{"id":3384,"date":"2016-02-24T09:18:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T09:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2023-04-14T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T08:12:09","slug":"change-display-name-of-imap-pop3-account-in-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/change-display-name-of-imap-pop3-account-in-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Display Name of IMAP\/POP3 Account in Outlook 2010-2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generally, while you add email account to Outlook 2010-2016, no matter it is set as IMAP or POP3 account, it would show in email format by default.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/imap-pop3-account-display-formt.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3386\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/imap-pop3-account-display-formt.png\" alt=\"IMAP\/POP3 account default display format\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/imap-pop3-account-display-formt.png 500w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/imap-pop3-account-display-formt-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can I change it to show in my favorite name or format if I don\u2019t like the default one? Surely, you can. Just need to <strong>rename IMAP\/POP3 account<\/strong> to change its display name like the introductions below.<\/p>\n<h2>Steps to Change IMAP\/POP3 account display name in Outlook 2010-2016<\/h2>\n<p>Step 1: Click <strong>File &gt; Info &gt; Account Settings<\/strong>, and choose <strong>Account Settings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/choose-account-settings-option.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3388\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/choose-account-settings-option.png\" alt=\"choose account settings option in outlook\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/choose-account-settings-option.png 500w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/choose-account-settings-option-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 2: In <strong>Account Settings<\/strong> dialog, under <strong>E-mail<\/strong> tab, you could see the email account you have set as IMAP or POP3 account.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/select-email-account.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3390\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/select-email-account.png\" alt=\"select email account in account settings\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/select-email-account.png 500w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/select-email-account-300x244.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Double-click the email account (IMAP\/POP3 account) you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/change-display-name-of-imap-pop3-account-in-outlook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">change display name<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Step 3: In pop-up <strong>Change Account<\/strong> dialog, click <strong>More Settings<\/strong> at the right bottom side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/choose-more-settings-for-account.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3391\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3391 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/choose-more-settings-for-account.png\" alt=\"choose more settings for IMAP\/POP3 account\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/choose-more-settings-for-account.png 500w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/choose-more-settings-for-account-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 4: While you see <strong>Internet E-mail Settings<\/strong>, under <strong>General <\/strong>tab, you can type a new name for the mail account. It will show in Outlook data file or mail list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/change-account-display-name.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3392\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"344\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/change-account-display-name.png\" alt=\"change IMAP\/POP3 account display name\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/change-account-display-name.png 300w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/change-account-display-name-262x300.png 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For example, the email I have added to Outlook is <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">xxxx@gmail.com<\/span><\/em>. It shows as <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">xxxx@gmail.com<\/span><\/em> in Outlook 2010 after I set it IMAP account. Now I can rename it to display like <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>isunshareware<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/account-display-with-new-name.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3393\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/account-display-with-new-name.png\" alt=\"display IMAP\/POP3 account new name\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/account-display-with-new-name.png 500w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/account-display-with-new-name-300x244.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 5: Click OK and IMAP\/POP3 account would display with new name you just type.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/outlook-password\/how-to-change-outlook-2013-email-password.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Change Outlook 2013 E-mail Password<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/outlook-password\/recover-outlook-2016-forgotten-pst-password.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Recover Outlook 2016 PST File Forgotten Password<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally, while you add email account to Outlook 2010-2016, no matter it is set as IMAP or POP3&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[217],"class_list":["post-3384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-office-documents","tag-outlook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3384"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6321,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions\/6321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}