Messages on El Capitan - can't use nicknames?

I have not found this issue anywhere, but I'm trying to get my contacts in Messages to display in Pseudo as defined in Contacts. Is this possible? I don't see why it wouldn't, currently nickname seems to work on my iPhone, not on my mac.

Thank you

Michael

Mac OS and iDevice OS work differently - they are not the same. Here is a screenshot of the Contacts preferences pane:

You could try and check the "nicknames like" to see if that would do the trick for you by entering a couple of them (I have not tried so I don't know if it works).

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