track changes / username

[Bill Porter]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask but kind of wondered if it's
possible to set up a macro yo solve my problem.

We have a standard image of the corporate PC which we install on every users
machine, that image has the organisation initials as the 'username' within
the Office suite. We've been asked whether we can set them up so that when
a particular director wants to track document changes they can see the
initials of the user who has made those changes, as it currently stands
they always see the organisation initials. is there any way to create a
macro that temporarily replaces those 'standard' initials with the initials
of whoever is logged on to that particular machine.

Bill

 

[Bill Porter]

Guess I should have added that corporate version of Office is 2000, but some
users have 2003.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

You can use

Application.UserInitials =

to set the user initials.

I would suggest though that it would be better if you had each user change
the initials to their initials.

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[Bill Porter]

You can use

Application.UserInitials =

to set the user initials.

I would suggest though that it would be better if you had each user change
the initials to their initials.

I'd kinda hoped it would have been possible for it to happen automatically,
so that if a user logged onto a particular machine then 'something' could
feed that username (or ideally, initials) into the Office suite. I guess
that if doing it manually is the only way then thats all we can do.

Thinking about it, I suppose that for the vast majority of users, the simple
manual change would cover most requirements.

Thanks for the input Doug.

Bill

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

It's something that they will only have to do once, unless you have some
fiendish update thingy running when they startup that resets everything.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP