How to change company name in MS Office

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I need to change the company name for all MS Office products running on
workstations under Windows 2000. I followed the directions in Microsoft
Knowledge Base Article Q233499 but when I create a new document in MS Word it
still comes up with the document property "Company" with the old company name.

I searched through everything in the registry and on the disk and I can't find
anywhere that its still getting the old company name from. (!?!?!)

Can anyone suggest where its getting the old name and how I can fix it? Further,
if replacing the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\GUID
RegCompany string for all Office components is really the way to change it,
could anyone tell me if there is a good, safe way to set up a global search and
replace in the registry to do that.

Appreciate any help. Thanks.

If this is not the right group to ask this question in, please recommend one
where it would be. Thanks.
 
You forgot to mention which version of Office you are working with.

If you are using Office XP (10.0), then try this:

Key=HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Common\UserInfo\
Value=Company
ValueType=REG_BINARY

If this value does what you're after, then this might be tricky from a
script point of view because it needs to be done for each user, since the
data is stored under HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Explain a little more about how you
plan to do this, like:

- Are you using login scripts, a systems management product, home-grown
scripts that scour the network, etc.

- Do you need to do this for all existing user profiles, or only new user
profiles, or both?

- Do you need to do this one time on existng machines only, or on all
machines and new ones built in the future?
 
charles said:
Sorry about that. It is Office 2000.

I was hoping to do it from a .cmd/.bat file called from user's login.cmd.

One time (hopefully) on all existing users/machines. New installs will be fixed.

Thanks for the interest. I looked at the reg location suggested and do have it
but it only references some Office 2002 apps that are installed independently in
this area.
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Charles,

Did you happen to notice the 10.0 version in the Registry key I posted???
Try changing that to 9.0 and see what you find:

Key=HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\UserInfo\
Value=Company
ValueType=REG_BINARY

Change this value manually and see if it does what you want. If it does,
then you could do the same thing from login.cmd with either REG.EXE or
REGEDIT.EXE
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charles wrote in
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:55:17 -0600, "Marty List"



Yes there is a parallel set for 8.0, 9.0 and 10.0. I have changed
the value of Company in all of them but Word _still_ comes up with
the value of the old company name as the Company property of
document1 when started.

There is no instance of the old company name anywhere I can find
in the registry or anywhere in any template file I can find.

This is really puzzling. I really don't want to clean and
reinstall Office everywhere.
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Check your default doc file template file *.dot
 
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