How do I personalise Microsoft Office?????????????

[Rasu]

I was given a laptop by my brother a week ago (his old one!). It has Windows 2000 and Microsoft Office. I have personalised the laptop and made it look and feel like mine... but any Microsoft Office document I open or create still gives my brother's name. Is there a way to change this?

I know that if I create another 'USER' within Windows 2000, I can personalise everything from the start, but is there was way to do the above without creating another user profile for myself?

Thanks.

[king_ging]

Hi Rasu,

have you checked the options under for example excel then the general tab

good luck

[Andy-S]

I believe that Microsoft Office is registered during the install process. You enter your owner information and the organization details are pulled from the registry.

The user infromation can be chganged from the tools, options, user information tab.

[Rasu]

Thanks for your response. This gets me to change the 'author' of individual Office documents. Is there a way to make this change by default so that when I start/open any Office document, even the splash screen will have my name and my company name?

I tried creating a new user and doing this, but I could only change the user name (for all Office documents), and NOT the company name.

Is a reinstall of Office 2000 the only way to go?

Thanks for your suggestions, and hope to hear more. :)

[Rasu]

Thanks. So does that mean that I should uninstall and then reinstall Office??

[Andy-S]

If you have the CD's then it would definitely be worth a try. To change the registered organization information you have to modify the following key in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion and change the value of RegisteredOrganization to reflect your company name. You can also change the key RegisteredOwner to your name.

[Rasu]

Thanks I will give that a try.

[justinr]

Hi,

If your tried all the above and about to give up, then use this method I use, in case my Product ID turns invalid and I don't have to reinstall Office 2000 from scratch. Doing this will allow you to change the registration and its also a matter of re-entering your Product Key again and your away!

The downfall is that you may have to go-online to activate your Product Id.

(1)Close any MS Office Apps currently running
(2)Go to Start-Run
(3)Type Regedit
(4)Go to the location:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Uninstall\{00010409-xxxxxxxx}

Just look on the right pane and if you see "Microsoft Office Professional", then your in the right place.

(5)Look for the value: "Product ID"
What you have to do now is rename this to: OldProductID
(6)Press F5
(7)Exit out of the Registry

(8)Open up say....Powerpoint.
At this point you will be required to re-enter your Registration and Product ID Key.

You should be sweet!!

Although I do agree with Andys method, but Ive found that it only changes it in the Registry, but not with the Application as it should! If it did, then hey, good one.

[Rasu]

Thank you ALL. Something, somewhere worked, and Office now rightly says my name. Actually what I had to do was to uninstall Office, then MANUALLY delete the folder called Office, and then reinstall Office again... I had also tried all the changes you had suggested - so that must have helped too. Thank you all very much.

:-)

- A happy man.