How can you change the User Name in Office 97\2000 splash screen?
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    Registered User TangleWeb's Avatar
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    Question How can you change the User Name in Office 97\2000 splash screen?

    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.

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    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...
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