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Hide last name?
Hi,
Is it possible to hide my last name here at the forum?
Thanks
Hi Both,
I am afraid the surname is populated by the SSO flow from the Microsoft Account or the Office 365 account and is a required field. As a result you can update it all you like in the "Personal Information" section, as suggested above, however on next login it will reset back to the information on your respective profile.
We do not currently support the concept of nicknames, if you would like to see that in a future version of the community please feel free to submit it in our idea's space and we will of course consider it, if enough users ask for it.
Microsoft Account users can change their name in the Microsoft Account Profile page.
Note when you do so the update in the community is not always immediate, although you can force it by clicking this link.
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- I was having the same problem. I use Edge and there doesn't seem to be any problem.
There is an invisible caracter that i used to hide my last name, it does not necesseraly hide but obviously as in invisible caracter you can't see it: ( ) "it's between paretheses"
You can put this invisible caracter in the surname space when you edit name profile on microsoft account (obvious)
Hope this information helped you.
- Cool
Hi everyone,
Looking at the issue going on here, there is an idea in the ideas space of not showing your real name on the Microsoft Tech Community website and just your nickname. If you like the idea, you may upvote it.
- I was SHOCKED to find my whole name displayed on my post and even more shocked to find that there was no way to hide my name. What, I ask, is the point of screennames if they are just going to show your whole name?? This is a basic privacy feature I expect from any website and find it egregious that Microsoft is violating my privacy in this way.
- Hi,
Yes, they need to fix like a box where you can hide your name and only use a "nick name" or something. =)- Allen
Community Manager
Hi Both,
I am afraid the surname is populated by the SSO flow from the Microsoft Account or the Office 365 account and is a required field. As a result you can update it all you like in the "Personal Information" section, as suggested above, however on next login it will reset back to the information on your respective profile.
We do not currently support the concept of nicknames, if you would like to see that in a future version of the community please feel free to submit it in our idea's space and we will of course consider it, if enough users ask for it.
Microsoft Account users can change their name in the Microsoft Account Profile page.
Note when you do so the update in the community is not always immediate, although you can force it by clicking this link.
- You should be able to update your last name under "My Settings", then "Personal Information". I don't think that will remove your last name from old posts, but worth a shot.
- I think I tried that, but I don't know if it syncs it back from my O365 account or something.
Thanks. =)Marcus Kjellberg Sorry to revive a zombie thread. Ditto here due to O365 settings. Have you found a workaround? Thanks
