Forum Discussion
Set your own Nickname on Teams
When I tag someone using @, Teams copy the person name in the post, right?
But I know many people that don't like their name
or their name is too long or super difficult to rear/pronounce
or they like nicknames, like me 🙂
Then my idea
No, that is not possible. It is possible to remove the first or last name in when tagging a person. There is a uservoice suggesting that you should be able to use nicknames.
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/32670574-nicknames
You could use tags in a teams as a workaround, but that is only per team.
https://www.lync.se/2020/02/use-tags-to-communicate-in-teams/
- Hi fmello007
There are several uservoices for this including
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/32670574-nicknames
So would vote up to push them up the agenda, however you could do this with tagging assuming you let people know your nickname
https://microsoft365pro.co.uk/2020/03/15/teams-real-simple-with-pictures-using-tags-for-targeted-communications/
Hope that answers your question. I think I a lot would like to see this functionality so I voted on it too
Best, ChrisIn my organization their are many people having same name but they are in different teams (inside company) ..so it is difficult to distinguish them or memorize their emails...Cant we just rename their names with something like Rahul Bhargava (Development)...so it would become easy to mention right person.
No, that is not possible. It is possible to remove the first or last name in when tagging a person. There is a uservoice suggesting that you should be able to use nicknames.
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/32670574-nicknames
You could use tags in a teams as a workaround, but that is only per team.
https://www.lync.se/2020/02/use-tags-to-communicate-in-teams/
Reopening this, has this changed in the last 4 years? Is there currently a way to set a nickname in Teams? I am in a small business where there are 4 people with similar names, so we would like to be able to @ tag them by nickname to stop accidental tagging when it autofills the wrong persons surname!
