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Mark has a worksheet where he wants to record the name of a user, but rather than asking the user to fill in a form, he wants to automatically grab their username from Excel.
The username that a person sets in Excel when first installing the software or when changing the general options for the program cannot be accessed via formula. Instead, you need to use a macro to access the information and then make it available to your worksheet. This is possible through the use of a user-defined function. Consider the following simple example:
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This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Office 365. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: 
Function GetUserName()
GetUserName = Application.UserName
End Function
Note that the macro does nothing more than to access the UserName property of the Application object. You use this function in your worksheet in the following manner:
=GetUserName()
With this simple formula in a cell, the username is displayed in the cell.
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2016-05-11 13:22:19
Dex Luther
This worked perfectly.
This shows a person's name as "Lastname, Firstname". I was wondering if there was a way to switch it to show "Firstname Lastname"
2015-12-16 18:29:36
Dawn
Could something similar be used to pull in specific Workbook Properties?
For example: I'd like to auto-populate a cell with the contents of the "Tags" (sometimes also called "Keywords") property field as shown on the Excel Info Properties view.
2015-10-14 04:17:14
Gareth Crothers
I'm looking to to add the user name of the person who adds information to a Excel document from an in house server.
Similar to the date formulae where it retrieves the date from your Mac, is there a way I can create something to retrieve the user name of their Mac?
Thanks in advance!
2015-04-06 11:36:10
Scott Renz
Thanks, Larry Conrad,
What is "WinNT"?
My computer doesn't seem to like it.
2015-04-06 08:46:50
Larry Conrad
Here is a code snippet I use to get User info from a network id.
Dim UsrDomain As String
Dim UsrId As String
Dim UsrName As String
Dim ADUser As Object
UsrDomain = Environ("USERDOMAIN")
UsrId = Environ("USERNAME")
Set ADUser = GetObject("WinNT://" & UsrDomain & "/" & UsrId)
UsrName = Mid(ADUser.FullName, InStr(1, ADUser.FullName, ",") + 2, 30) & " " & _
Left(ADUser.FullName, InStr(1, ADUser.FullName, ",") - 1)
2015-04-04 09:36:07
Gerhard Schweizer
It should be mentioned that this username is just the name within MS Office, not (necessarily) the Windows username. To retrieve the latter, another function must be used
2015-04-04 05:37:43
ravi kumar mathur
very good and useful tip, thanks
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