Changing Your Name On Emails

[Khandro]

I've had to change my email address because I'm locked out of my original one and after a month of trying to log back in I've given up. 

I'm now using Gmail in Outlook. It was an old, little used account which works fine, but the name the recipients see I don't like, and some people are not opening my emails because they don't recognise it's me.

Is there any way I can change my name on their incoming emails please.

[barry1010]

You can do it on your PC

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/8158?hl=en-GB

[Khandro]

Thanks barry, I can't even now sign in to Google, password not recognised. I'm really peed off.

I seem to have two Gmail accounts from the passed. should they be synchronised which is what they ask for - I'm scared to do anything that might make things worse!

[calmck]

Don't know if this will help

Important: You can't change your name from the Gmail app.

On your computer, open Gmail.

In the top right, click Settings. See all settings.

Click the Accounts and Import or Accounts tab.

Under "Send mail as," click Edit info.

Enter the name you want to show when you send messages.

At the bottom, click Save changes.

 

[barry1010]

You could put your name in to the email headers so people know it's you.  You should only need to do it for a short while.

If GMail is the only email you intend using, ditch Outlook, and just log in to GMail itself.  It's a pain but you could create a brand new GMail account, starting again from scratch. That should be the end of your email problems.