HOW TO CREATE SCREEN NAMES:

When you first signed on to AOL, you either picked or were given a screen name. That name will always stay on your account and can't be changed. However, you can create up to four other names for use on your account. Here's how:

1. From the "Browse the service" screen, click (press left mouse button) on the "?" icon- What's New & Online Support. This is a free area.
2. Choose "Customize America Online"
3. Choose "Create/Delete Screen Names"
4. Pick "Create a screen name"
5. Click on "continue"
6. Type in the 3 to 10 letter name you want. You may have to get pretty creative. Many names are already taken. If a name you want is taken, you will be offered the next closest possibility. For example, if you ask for "Hello", you may be offered "Hello6". This means that 5 others have that name. If there's nothing available that's close to what you selected, you may be offered a name like "member4485". If you want to accept that name, click on OK. If not, erase it and try something else. When satisfied, click on OK.
7. Select a password, click on "Set Password". 

That's it, you've just added a name to your account. If you'd like to use this new name, you will have to logoff and then back on. Notice the name that's displayed in the AOL sign on window. That will be the name you logon with unless you change it. There are up and down arrow keys to the right of the name. Click on either until the name you wish to logon with is showing in the window. Then sign on as you normally would.

Though your various names are on the same account, each has a seperate "life" of it's own. When loged on under one name, you can't read mail that was sent to the others.

You can only have 5 names on your account at one time. If you have 5 and would like to make a new one, you will have to delete one of the existing ones. (Similar to creating a screen name, but select delete instead and type in the name you want to delete.) Be careful, once you delete a name, you can't get it back.