Travel Technology - Pre-installed user - how do I get rid of this?

I've just had to borrow a laptop (running 98) & when i'm editing word documents, rather than saying edited by Swiss Tony, it's coming up with Pre assigned user.

Does anyone know how I can change the pre-assigned user to my name???

Thanks

Tony

It should be under tools>options>user information.

If not then it will be in the registry, just search for the current username and edit that key.

Excellent,

Thank you Scott!

It should be under tools>options>user information.

If not then it will be in the registry, just search for the current username and edit that key.

That'll change the entire machine's user information. Alternatively, within MSWord you can got to File/Properties/Summary and directly manipulate the document tags to change the author, etc.

That'll change the entire machine's user information. Alternatively, within MSWord you can got to File/Properties/Summary and directly manipulate the document tags to change the author, etc.

I was under the impression that Office also stored it's user information in the registry, seperate from the Windows/current version name/company you enter when installing?

I was under the impression that Office also stored it's user information in the registry, seperate from the Windows/current version name/company you enter when installing?

As typical with MS app design, there's a range of conflicting and unintuitive answers.

The OS stores a user profile with associated descriptors.
The app (actually, app suite in this case) (unless the suite components were installed in multiple passes) stores an install-time user identification.
The app stores a changeable "user information".
The document stores a metaproperty called "author".

Under normal circumstances, each of these is seeded by the one above.

The OP's question appeared to refer specifically to either the document metaproperty, which can be edited via the File/Properties/Summary tab, or (mea culpa, I didn't think of this one before) the "user information" (which is what is used to tag redline information, and to seed future new documents metaproperties.)

The user information can be changed via Tools/Options/User Information (which is then persistent across sessions.)