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TangleWeb
April 3rd, 2001, 08:47 AM
Sorry for the double post. I'm not sure if everybody checks this one.....

Here's a "toughie"......
How do you change the User & Company Name in the splash screen that appears when you launch Office 97, or 2000 applications?

I know how to change it in the registry for the operating system itself, either by directly editing it, or using a registry front-end tool like WinChanger (Great tool, by the way! http://www.pbnsoft.com/ )

But I have searched the registry for EVERY instance of the current Registered User Name & NONE of them affect the splash screen. I'm thinking it must be a binary value, or perhaps an entry in an INI file somewhere.

I've searched TechNet & the MS KnowledgeBase to no avail.

I have already un-installed & re-installed it. No help.

One of our users gives PowerPoint presentations on a big screen. Who ever installed Office 2000 on her laptop misspelled our Company Name! How embarrassing! Wasn't me, thank God!

Appreciate everybody's help on this.

Spaceman Spiff
April 3rd, 2001, 10:24 PM
I know that if I change my user name in Word 2000 (Tools | Options | User Information), the name in the Word 2000 splash screen correspondingly changes. I'm not sure about the "company name" though. I need to do some more checking... :confused: