Office 2003 user names

[aussiered1974]

Hi

Is there a way to automatically pick up the logged in user as the Office 2003 user name? I am on a network, and everyone's Office user name at the moment is 'Administrator'! This is not very useful if you want to know who has a spreadsheet locked for editing!!!

Cheers

[nitroshift]

as far as i know (that doesn't necessarily mean i'm right thought) you can't. office uses the logon account names.

[hosebeast]

No, when you launch Office 2003 for the first time in a given user profile (meaning for each Windows user account), it prompts you for your name and initials. It then stores them in the UserName and UserInitials entries under:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserInfo

These 2 entries are in REG_BINARY format due to Unicode. Therefore, you have to be careful when editing in regedit.

Even if you installed Office unattended, it will still prompt for user name when first launched in a given user profile (assuming you used a Microsoft-supported method of unattended install, such as GPO; if you used 3rd party tools, then that might explain how you wound up with Administrator in everybody's profile).

[aussiered1974]

Well, it is not deployed as such! It is part of our SOE & therefore pre-loaded onto the machine before we get it!