Note: Please follow the steps in our documentation to enable e-mail notifications if you want to receive the related email notification for this thread. If you have extra questions about this answer, please click 'Comment'. Under the 'User Accounts' section, click the Change account type option. If the answer is helpful, please click 'Accept Answer' and kindly upvote it. To modify the account name through the User Accounts settings, use these steps: Open Control Panel.

If you downloaded the version of Microsoft Teams (work or school), you will need to use an organizational account instead of a personal account.įor more details you can refer to this document Personal account: you can click the avatar in the upper right corner of Teams, then click the profile card to the right of the avatar, and finally click Edit name.įor the error you need to log in with a school or work email address, it may be that the client version you downloaded is wrong and you cannot log in.

Organization Account: you need to contact the administrator to change the display name in the M365 admin center. Excel for Microsoft 365 Word for Microsoft 365 Outlook for Microsoft 365 PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 Access for Microsoft 365 Project Online Desktop Client Publisher for Microsoft 365 Visio Plan 2 Excel 2021 Word 2021 Outlook 2021 PowerPoint 2021 Access 2021 Project Professional 2021 Project Standard 2021 Publisher 2021 Visio Professional 2021 Visio Standard 2021 Excel 2019 Word 2019 Outlook 2019 PowerPoint 2019 Access 2019 Project Professional 2019 Project Standard 2019 Publisher 2019 Visio Professional 2019 Visio Standard 2019 Excel 2016 Word 2016 Outlook 2016 PowerPoint 2016 Access 2016 OneNote 2016 Project Professional 2016 Project Standard 2016 Publisher 2016 Visio Professional 2016 Visio Standard 2016 Excel 2013 Word 2013 Outlook 2013 PowerPoint 2013 Access 2013 OneNote 2013 Project Professional 2013 Project Standard 2013 Publisher 2013 Visio Professional 2013 Visio 2013 Excel 2010 Word 2010 Outlook 2010 PowerPoint 2010 Access 2010 OneNote 2010 Project 2010 Project Standard 2010 Publisher 2010 Visio 2010 Visio Standard 2010 Excel 2007 Word 2007 Outlook 2007 PowerPoint 2007 Access 2007 OneNote 2007 Project Standard 2007 Publisher 2007 Visio 2007 Visio Standard 2007 Excel Starter 2010 InfoPath 2010 InfoPath 2013 InfoPath Edit Mode 2007 InfoPath Edit Mode 2010 Word Starter 2010 More.If you want to change the user's display name, it is divided into different account types.

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