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It is possible in Word to keep track of quite a bit of summary information for a document. One of the pieces you can track is the author of a document. This originally is set to be the same as the Word user name, but you can change the author name at any time. Word allows you to insert the author's name directly in your document, and have it updated automatically if you should ever change the author's name. This is done by following these steps:
Figure 1. The Field dialog box.
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2014-07-04 12:31:41
Chris Lawrence
Contact details of the author are being read from Outlook and thus the name being added is formatted into an email address rather than reading the name field, can this be changed, very frustrating!
2013-03-06 04:50:02
vivek
I want the name updated automatically which is not happening. The document that i am looking at is residing on a sever, there are multiple people who can access it. Our aim is to understand the name of the author who last made changes to the document and saved it. The name field updates only if some one updates that manually,what i mean is the person has to select the field and hit update to get the name field updated.
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