Hi All, If anyone knows how to do this please let me know it will save me days of work. The PCs in my company are passed down the line as new ones come in. Sometimes they come from an image with Office included. If someone has an Excel spreadsheet or Word doc open and someone else wants to open it it tells them that it is in use by xxx. The problem is that because the pcs are moved around it makes it impossible to find that pc as the person has either left the company or has a different pc. Does anyone know how to change the Office User details on the spash screen of Word / Excel without having to uninstall and reinstall Office with the correct details. If you change the user details within Word, Excel it still takes the details from the user information supplied from the installation. I've searched the registry and ini files but if anyone has come accross this problem before please help. You can email me @ ksmi@helsinn.com

Try this link: http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/460/ It may not be what you want, but it sounds like it pointing in the right direction. For future installs, how about naming the computer a slightly more generic name, and then keeping track of the systems by computer name? Then, the Office install can also be done by system name, and the problems will be limited to a degree. HTH, Chase

Excellent thanks Chase!