Renaming Licenced User

Rebahll

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Jul 6, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/6/00

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I am having a difficult time in renaming the licensed user of the MS Office
Suite from a previous user that no longer is with the organization. Can
someone help me in renaming the registered user of the suite (MS OFFICE 97
and 2000) without having to re-install the software.

Thanks

Steven Bilyk
sbi...@eba.ca

Bob Buckland ?:-)

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Jul 6, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/6/00

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Hi Steven,

For Office 97 the information on the splash screen is encoded into the apps and you will
need to uninstall/restart/install. In Office 2000 the user name can be changed from
Tools=>Options=>User Info.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q233/4/99.ASP

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Thanks

Steven Bilyk>>
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Steve

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Jul 6, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/6/00

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Is there not any other way to change the username on the splash screen on
office 97? I have been trying to find this on the knowledge base, but i
have not had any luck?

Steve
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Bob Buckland ?:-)

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Hi Steve,

Not that I've seen. Office 2000 was the first version that made this accessible.

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Is there not any other way to change the username on the splash screen on
office 97? I have been trying to find this on the knowledge base, but i
have not had any luck?

Steve>>

Mike Webb

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> From: "Rebahll" <mvic...@eba.ca>
> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 10:39:26 -0600

> I am having a difficult time in renaming the licensed user of the MS Office
> Suite from a previous user that no longer is with the organization. Can
> someone help me in renaming the registered user of the suite (MS OFFICE 97
> and 2000) without having to re-install the software.

I understand MS Office 2000 can be changed in the registry. Just crank up
REGEDIT and do a search for the last name of the user and you should find the
key which holds that information (there may be more than one) and update it.

As for Office 97 and earlier, you have two choices;

1) reinstall the software (the name is embedded in the program in an
encrypted form);

2) hang out (or do a Deja search) in the cracks groups and see if someone has
developed a crack to change it.

And I think those are about your only options!

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