Google mail problem

[Adela]

Hello, and please forgive if this is an off off topic, but I post here as a last resort. The problem:

I opened a gmail account to be able to occasionally email to a certain place without much identification, rather than from my usual Outlook Express...but today I needed to send such an email and I discovered that my full name appears by the "FROM:" field. I immediately tried to change that and couldn't. I tried the Google forum, even though it's such a jungle, but in addition I found that most people there were using the filthiest language I had seen in my long life!!! And SO unnecessary!!!

I got disgusted and quit. But someone gave me a link to a direct contact to Google tech. I clicked on it...and the so called direct contact was the longest ever list of FAQs! I did search through THIS jungle too...to no avail.

If anyone happens to also have a gmail account and know how I can get rid of my full name up in front, I'd be most grateful! I figure if there's no way, I won't need to keep that account.

Thanks ever SO much! Adela

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

It's a little bit hidden, but it is not difficult to change the name that is sent in the 'From' header.

• Login to your Gmail account
  
• Click on 'Settings'
  
• Tab 'Accounts'.
  
• You will see 'Send mail as' ... with an option to edit on the right; click 'Edit'.
  
• A windows will pop up where you can change your name to anything you want.
  
• Click 'Save Changes'.
  

[Adela]

Hi with BIG THANKS Pat! I did it! And to think I thought the full name was cemented for life! I guess I was so enraged with what I considered a jungle that it must've blinded me to the possibility of changing it.

Now I see that Google might not be so bad after all. :D

THANKS SO MUCH AGAIN!!! ;o) Adela