How do you create a signature of the user in a mailmerge letter?

[Carrie]

I have created a mailmerge letter in Word 2007. I'm having trouble at the
end of my letter after the "Sincerely" getting it to print the users name
instead of my name. Is there a merge field I can use for this or is there
something else I need to do?

 

[Peter Jamieson]

It depends.

the field { username } will insert the user name as set up in
Word->Tools->Options->user information (Word 2003 and earlier) or the same
field in Office Button->Word options->Popular, in Word 2007.

Obviously, the user's name needs to be set up in an appropriate way if you
do that, e.g. if you want the letter to be signed "Mr P Jamieson", you need
to be sure that the option field doesn't contain "Pete"

The {} need to be the special field code braces you can insert using
ctrl-F9.

Or, it might be appropriate to use the text set up in Word's Author
property, in which case you could use

{ author }

However, if you need to pick up the /Windows/ user name, there is no field
to do that and you would have to do it in VBA, which would I suspect cause
more complication than you probably want.

 

[Carrie]

Thank you Peter that does help me, and you are right I am trying to stay away
from having to do it in VBA. Thanks again!