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On every MSN messenger I’ve used (deleted and re-installed some of the older versions to see if anything changed) I can only see my contacts e-mail address and not their nickname. There’s nothing in the options menu to change it back so you can see their nickname either. Anyone know what to do?
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Rich.I had the same problem but with only a few contacts, when I got the new msn messenger.
If you right click on the name you get a list of choices, first write down their email address which appears at the top. I then went to ‘edit contact’, put in their email address on the pop up box and hey presto they appear under my friends list again.
I don’t quite understand that, Sarah.
I thought with 7.5 there was an easy option to select whether to see everyone’s email addresses OR to see their nicknames.
Anyway, at LAST with version 8 they allow you to enter the nickname [right-click, “Edit Nickname”] YOU want for the person (very useful as SOME idiot friends seem to change their nick almost daily!) – so I just enter “my” nickname (e.g. “SarahT-BBB-UK”!) for eveyone on my list, then I can see exactly who’s who.
And a mouse hover will show the email address, if I should ever want it.(I think perhaps it shows email address UNLESS you put something in nickname, in which case it shows that instead).
will someone just answer the question….jeez
You can view your contacts by either Friendly Name, Email or Real Name. (Real Name was added with Windows Live Messenger.)
You can organise your contacts this way by following these steps:
* Sign in to messenger
* At the top, click “Contacts” and then “View Contacts By”You can then pick which option you would like to view them by
Help Collected From: The Messenger Help Wiki (http://stiggy.be/msn/index.php/Contact_List)
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