Help renaming identity

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Uncle Vinnie

Hi..

How would one rename an identity??? Using Outlook 2000, Workgroup, and WinXP
Home.....

One is used for regular pop3 email, the one I want to rename connects to the
office... One is named Vin Home, Id' like to label the other identity Vin
Office... thanks!
 
There are no identities in Outlook - they're called profiles. You can't
rename them (annoying, isn't it?) You'd need to create new ones (not a copy
from another profile) entirely.
 
You mean mail profile? (identities is from OE)

You can't rename the profiles. You can however copy a profile so you can
specify a name and delete the old one.

You can change this in Control Panel-> Mail-> button Show Profiles...

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Yes. that's what I meant, profiles!

Guess I'm having an identity crisis as well!! Thanks, so I CAN copy one to
another? Or cannot? Lemme go back and re-read Lanwench's reply as well, or
am I misunderstanding something...

Thanks!!
 
Uncle Vinnie said:
How would one rename an identity??? Using Outlook 2000, Workgroup,
and WinXP Home.....
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Outlook has no construct call "identity". Perhaps you mean "account".
One is used for regular pop3 email, the one I want to rename connects
to the office... One is named Vin Home, Id' like to label the other
identity Vin Office... thanks!
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Tools>Services. Find your account and select it. Click "Properties" (or
"Change", I forget which). You should be able to change the account name
there.
 
I'm not sure what Lanwench is refering to but a copy does work.

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If you copy a profile to another new one, and delete the old profile, you'll
have problems in the new profile & likely have to redefine the items
therein. I don't know whether this is still the case in OL2003, but I've
seen it be a problem in every prior version.
 
Alright, thanks!

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Thanks All.. took a shot. made a copy with a new name, then deleted the
original and all works fine..

Maybe I lucked out??? Then again, we lucked out when being told Cisco's VPN
client usually doesn't work with XPHome- 98, yes, XP Pro, yes...

All's working fine - and- with more sensible labels.. thanks again!

Roady said:
Alright, thanks!

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Haha, thanks for the feedback and proofing me right! :-D
(well for this situation then Lanwench ;-)

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Uncle Vinnie said:
Thanks All.. took a shot. made a copy with a new name, then deleted the
original and all works fine..

Maybe I lucked out??? Then again, we lucked out when being told Cisco's VPN
client usually doesn't work with XPHome- 98, yes, XP Pro, yes...

All's working fine - and- with more sensible labels.. thanks again!

message news:[email protected]...
Alright, thanks!

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"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
If you copy a profile to another new one, and delete the old profile,
you'll
have problems in the new profile & likely have to redefine the items
therein. I don't know whether this is still the case in OL2003, but I've
seen it be a problem in every prior version.

Roady [MVP] wrote:
I'm not sure what Lanwench is refering to but a copy does work.


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Yes. that's what I meant, profiles!

Guess I'm having an identity crisis as well!! Thanks, so I CAN copy
one to another? Or cannot? Lemme go back and re-read Lanwench's
reply as well, or am I misunderstanding something...

Thanks!!
"Roady [MVP]" <newsgroups_DELETE_@_DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net>
wrote in message You mean mail profile? (identities is from OE)

You can't rename the profiles. You can however copy a profile so
you can specify a name and delete the old one.

You can change this in Control Panel-> Mail-> button Show
Profiles...

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Hi..

How would one rename an identity??? Using Outlook 2000, Workgroup,
and WinXP
Home.....

One is used for regular pop3 email, the one I want to rename
connects to the
office... One is named Vin Home, Id' like to label the other
identity Vin Office... thanks!
Click to expand...
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