Setting Signature and Author

[MJR]

I have MS Word from OFFICE 2004 student addition

I have multiple accounts on the same computer running OS X 10.3.7

I cannot seem to get the User Information to populate from the Word
preferences, to File Properties->Summary->Author

i.e when I set a name in preferences, it doesn't end up automatically
in properties.

when I insert "Author, Page, Date" from Auto Insert, the Author name is
blank

when I manually set Properties, there is no problem

also the "Signature" text field is My name (the registered/licensed
name) and not the name from the user account (or the value from
preferences or file properties)

Can anyone suggest a fix ?

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

I have MS Word from OFFICE 2004 student addition

I have multiple accounts on the same computer running OS X 10.3.7

I cannot seem to get the User Information to populate from the Word
preferences, to File Properties->Summary->Author

i.e when I set a name in preferences, it doesn't end up automatically
in properties.

when I insert "Author, Page, Date" from Auto Insert, the Author name is
blank

when I manually set Properties, there is no problem

also the "Signature" text field is My name (the registered/licensed
name) and not the name from the user account (or the value from
preferences or file properties)

Can anyone suggest a fix ?

Word gets this information from the "Me" contact in Entourage Address Book,
not from the OS. Entourage does get the default settings (basically just the
name and short name, to start with, plus whatever you may have entered as
address and email address) from the OS. But if you've been making lots of
changes new OS users, etc. you'd better open Entourage once or twice in
these users. Any additional content you'd like o appear in Word should be
added to your "Me contact" (the one with the "i" icon) in Entourage.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
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