Question about Excel/Word 2000 Privacy

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inva1id

I know there was a NIC fingerprint embedded in office 97 document and it had
been removed in office 2000.

Now, does an exel/word 2000 document contain the information of my "user
name"?

The user name can bet set by Tools-->Options-->General-->User name or the
User information tab in Word.

If I send my document to my friend and he modifies it, will my user name
still in the document?

thanks!
 
invalid,
Now, does an exel/word 2000 document contain the information of my "user
name"?
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Application.UserName
gives you the name of the User who has the workbook opened.
That information is taken from the Tools/Options/General

ActiveWorkbook.BuiltinDocumentProperties("Author")
Will always contain the Username of the person that created the
original workbook, regardless of who may have saved it afterwards.

For more on the subject of BuiltInDocumentProperties, see here:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/docprop.htm

John
 
John Wilson said:
Application.UserName
gives you the name of the User who has the workbook opened.
That information is taken from the Tools/Options/General
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....

Not quite. Application.UserName is the name entered in the Person field
during the initial phases of installation. In many large companies, everyone
has the same Application.UserName. Indeed, it's usually only home users for
whom Application.UserName has any relevance.

For network user/login name, it takes a Windows API call.

http://groups.google.com/[email protected]
 
Harlan Grove said:
....
. . . Application.UserName is the name entered in the Person field
during the initial phases of installation. . . .
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....

Misread the OP.

Changing the user name in the Options dialog works as long as the user is
running under a Windows account with permission to change it. Not a problem
for Windows 95/98/Me, but awkward for non-Administrator accounts under
Windows XP Home.
 
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