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When you first install Excel, it asks you for your name so it can personalize the registration for your program. It also writes your name into the user area. This information is used in various places by Excel, such as in the workbook properties area. If you need to change your name, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The General options of the Excel Options dialog box.
Changing this setting has an additional consequence: On any workbooks you create in the future, whatever you enter into the User Name field ends up in the Author workbook property. The change won't modify the Author property for any existing workbooks, including the one you have open when you change the User Name field.
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2018-09-30 13:35:29
J. Woolley
@Howard: Try File > Account > Manage Account.
2018-09-29 17:37:46
Howard R Popper
Changing the User name does not change the name that appears in the ribbon which is the account name that was selected for me by Microsoft. Is there any way to change that because it is too long and takes up too much space in the ribbon?
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