ICHat name change issue

Question

How do I change the iChat name, it's set as my email account (Yahoo) but is showing the wrong display name when displayed as "view as name"?

Answer 1

Hi,
From iChat to Address Book
1) When Adding a Buddy in iChat you can enter First Name, Last Name details or expand the Pane with the blue arrow head at the right of the Last Name line and then chose an Existing Address Card.
2) For adding details to an existing iChat Buddy highlight the Buddy in the iChat Buddy list.
Use the CMD and i keys together (like Get Info in the Finder's File Menu).  This brings up the Info card for that Buddy. You can then chose the Address Card Tab and Add any Missing detail your want.
Example of Screen Name only Buddy
This will then add the details to the Address Book
From Address Book to iChat
If you have Contacts that you have Screen Names for already entered in the Address Book then you can Highlight them and Drag them to iChat's Buddy Lists (plural).
You can the regular modifier Keys (normally ALT and CMD) to Hold and click different Contacts to pick out just those you want to move.
Then drag the selected ones to iChat.  (if you pick and AIM Buddy list names will get Added there. You can also drag them to a Jabber Buddy list if you use one)
I Highlighted 5 people here and then started to Drag them.
This list is in fact a group I have within the Address Book that also relates to an iChat Group. I have edited out the names that may be traceable.
Obviously you can do them one at a time.
7:37 PM      Thursday; December 29, 2011
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