Here’s where you’ll want to make any changes you want to the default user information that’s going to be included in any Microsoft Office 2011 document, whether it’s from Excel, PowerPoint or Word. To change the owner name, and a bunch more information in documents, including address, phone number, etc (information that the previous owner undoubtedly does not want included in every document you create, you need to launch MS Word and click on the “Word” menu:Ĭhoose the “Preferences…” option and you’ll see that Microsoft Office 2011 has a Preferences area that looks astonishingly similar to the Mac OS X System Preferences area:Ĭlick on “User Information” in the lower left and you’ll see all sorts of information about the previous owner, the person who installed and configured the app originally:
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If you’ve gotten a computer with lots of useful software still installed - and it sounds like that’s what has occurred - then as a first step you’ll want to read my tutorial on How to Change the Owner Name on a Mac. That’s why I encourage people to quite literally start from scratch by reinstalling Mac OS X if they’re buying a used computer, whether from a private party or a company. Data about the user just seems to infiltrate all the nooks and crannies of the OS.
Unfortunately, like many different computers, Macintosh systems are easier to set up from scratch the way you want than to tweak and alter after it’s been used for a while.
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