Skype Tips – Rename Your Contacts

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Skype is a great technology for making calls worldwide to any landlines and cell phone number also to make Computer to Computer calls.

I admire Skype technology and everyday of my life I use Skype. I have used many versions of Skype and it seems to get better every time.

You may want your contact name different or the similar ones. How to rename Skype Contacts?

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For example,

  • You might know a John working in your company and a John who is your client. This may lead to an issue where you sometime send a wrong message to your client.

To prevent this, you can give custom names to your contacts.

For example,

  • John Internal and John Client or Client John or John Consultmirror
  • This way you know to differentiate between 2 contacts

You can rename the Skype contacts by following the methods below

  • Login to Skype
  • Click on any contacts

Skype rename Contact

  • Right click on the contact view and you will get a menu as seen below

Skype rename Contact 1

  • Click “Rename”
  • This will give you the editing option on the existing name as seen below

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  • Change the name that you want to and click outside of this editing box
  • Your changes will be saved
  • I found this method to be very useful in organizing the contacts

You can keep funny names also, your contacts will not know that you have changed the name. Have Fun.

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