Changing the Default Author in Excel2003

A

apomphre

I nearly lost my job yesterday! My IT Manager asked me to his office
to explain the following:
A H.R. staff member opened a password protected very confidential
spreadsheet and it said that Andrew had this document "reserved".
After alot of sweat I finally found the issue was due to MSOffice
being installed on our Corporate Terminal Server under my username and
I was the default Author for any new document/spreadsheet that is
created on this Terminal Server. My question to this group is why
cant any new user that logs onto this TS, why their login name cant be
the default Author, why am I the Author?? Is there a way to resolve
this, should I of done something clever when installing this software?
Does Office2007 handle this differently?
 
G

Guest

Has nothing to do with the terminal application layer. If you open a
workbook authored by someone else, the original authors name will be retained.

If you wish to claim local authorship:

1. save the workbook locally
2. right-click the icon:
Properties > Summary > Author:
 

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