When you add a new contact there is a place for the email address and
a field called "Display As". When you look at your "inbox", the
"from" field does not show the email address the message is from, it
shows the "Display As" (which I called Alias). However, as I noted,
the same email address can have many different "Display As" names for
the same email address. This is extremely annoying. I have cases
where there are 4 different "Display As" names for a single email
address. If I want to find all items "from" that particular email
address, I have to remember or find all 4 "Display As" names. That
seems downright stupid (I hope you will excuse my expressed
annoyance). As far as I can tell, I can't change that column (the
from column) to be sorted just on the email address and I can't change
the "Display As" names so that a given email address only has one
name. In addition, on emails I receive from China, they often have a
"Display As" that is not any known character and displays as nonsense.

The same problems apply in the "outbox".

I would be eternally grateful for any solution to this problem.

Thanks,

Huck

On Dec 11, 4:53 am, "Brian Tillman" wrote:
Huckleberry wrote:
Regarding aliases that are created on my computer, for example the
alias used when I add a new person to my address book, can I change
the alias?

You'll have to tell me what you mean by "alias" here. The usual definition
of aliases are multiple email addresses that all point to the same mailbox
on the server. Clearly, you have no idea whether or not your contact's mail
addresses are aliases.

Can I change all instances of it for past messages? That
is, if I change an alias, then I assume that the change will be
reflected in future messages that I send, but will it also change the
alias in sent messages?

Until I know what yuo mean by "alias", I won't be able to answer this.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]