changing authors

[ricalea]

My old system had a version of Office that had been loaded by someone else
and always had his name listed as the "author" of Excel or Word document that
I subsequently wrote. Now, I have a new system, and have Office 2003 with
Excel and Word. Is there any way to make a "universal" change to the
"author" of the hundreds of documents I still have in my system, or do I have
to make the change individually to each document?

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=821550 "How to change the company
name and user name in Office 2003". After you change the user name in
Office, new documents you create from this point forward will show the
new author name. For existing documents, see
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...agement/browse_thread/thread/32e5ed705c5e97f0
for a macro that modifies the author name property of all Word documents
in a certain folder.