Very Strange MSFT Word Query

[Exiled in London]

I have an official copy of Office 2007 installed on my Mac. When I installed
Office I registered it with my own name details. I recently created and saved
a document on my laptop using Word. In the "get info" for this document it
shows the author as someone else completely different, someone known to me
who definitely never had access to my computer or my document. This is an
important issue for me (I'm now being accused of plagiarism) and I'm
completely baffled at to how this could of happened. Any helpful comments
would be hugely appreciated.

 

[Beth Melton]

Is it possible you "reused" a document that the person previously authored
instead of creating a brand new fresh document? IOW, opened the file,
selected the contents, pressed Delete, and started typing. In this scenario
that person would still attributed as the author of the document. Another
scenario could be that the person shared a template with you that you then
used to create a new document. Whether on not the original author's name
saved in the Properties of the template would be retained when you create a
new document based on the template would depend on a few factors but it's a
possibility.

~Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP