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Marion

I have asked this question twice before and really would appreciate some
help. My husband died last year. How can I change the name of "Author" in
properties in Word and Access and "Modified by" in FrontPage folder view
etc. so that it shows only my name please? I have successfully changed the
computer Owner Name to just mine, but I still get both our names in
Properties, Documents and Settings etc as well as the previously mentioned
places. If you still don't understand what I mean I could try to make
myself even plainer, but a response would be so much appreciated.
 
Many programs and applications store the "Name" in a Registry Key
named RegOwner. (& Company name as RegCompany). You can
make those changes with Regedit.Exe

As to Documents & Settings, I'm assuming your late husband's profile
(User Account) is still resident on the machine. To resolve that go to
Control Panel (Classic View), Users Applet and remove the account.
You'll be offered the change to Remove or Keep the users data files.

As always with Registry editing, Export keys prior to changes or have
a full system image backup.
 
Thank you. We both had the same User Account named for the two of us. I
have already via Control Panel changed this User Account to just my name.
 
Does tools>options>user information tab do what you need Marion?

I fear some things are embedded at install time and you may never find them
all but on my "Office" copy of Word that seems to be the place. Whether you
could change this in documents that already exists I don't know because Word
does add some stuff to docs but maybe you had not noticed this one or maybe
it's not in earlier copies.

Charlie
 
In Word 2003, go to > Tools > Options > User Information
and change your husband's name to yours. It's a piece of cake.

In FrontPage 2003, I never paid attention to the "modified
field" before. It defaults to my system-ID (i.e., UncleJoe).
I can't find a way to modify ANY FrontPage setting to change
this behavior. I don't like it but...

Perhaps the MVPs at microsoft.public.frontpage.client can provide
more exact information on changing the "modified by" properties.

In Access 2000, I can find no global way to change the author's
name. However, if you open an access database, you can change
the author's name for that database via File > Database Properties
and then entering the author's name in the appropriate block.
 
Marion said:
I have asked this question twice before and really would appreciate
some help. My husband died last year. How can I change the name of
"Author" in properties in Word and Access and "Modified by" in
FrontPage folder view etc. so that it shows only my name please? I
have successfully changed the computer Owner Name to just mine, but I
still get both our names in Properties, Documents and Settings etc as
well as the previously mentioned places. If you still don't
understand what I mean I could try to make myself even plainer, but
a response would be so much appreciated.
Click to expand...

Click on Start....Run... type in regedit. Good idea to first save the
current copy of your Registry. Click on File... export. Remember where you
saved it. Then click on Edit...Find. Type in the name you want to change.
It will find all of them. On each one change the name as you desire. You
will have to reboot to effect the changes. If you have problems, boot to
Safe mode if necessary and click on Start... Run... regedit. Click on
File....Import and import that registry you saved.
 
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