Vista - windows mail

When I send e-mails, my name shows up on the "From" line as well as my email
address. My name also shows up in big letters and underlined at the top of
the email when I print it. Is there a way in windows mail to keep my name
from showing up in both of these places? In the Help & Support, it says that
I can leave the display name blank, but when I try that it will not allow me
to. Can anyone help me with this?

Replace the name with several 'space' characters.

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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP


"Cody" <Cody@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:CEC5583D-1F44-44B8-99CA-4A245C020373@xxxxxx

Thank you for your help. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but I
still cannot get this to work. Is there a special way I need to do the
'space' characters? I just used the space bar several times. Also, am I
going into the right place? I went to 'Tools', then 'Accounts', then 'Mail',
then 'Add', then 'E-mail', then the display name came up and I put in the
spaces. It would not let me click on 'Next', so I tried 'Enter' and it still
will not let me go any farther without putting in a name. I would really
appreciate any help and/or suggestions. Thank you.

"Gary VanderMolen" wrote:

It may be objecting to using a blank display name. See if if will let
you use a single non-blank character, such as a period.

"Cody" <Cody@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B4D71422-3C8E-4EE7-84A6-FACEB9975122@xxxxxx

You are correct, it will not accept space characters as a valid name.
It will accept a single period, so perhaps you can use that.

Instead of creating a new mail account, why not edit your existing account?
Tools, Accounts, select your mail account, Properties. On the General tab
change the Name information as desired.
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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP


"Cody" <Cody@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:B4D71422-3C8E-4EE7-84A6-FACEB9975122@xxxxxx