How do I check the Organization setting?

[rowan.bradley]

When I installed Office 2010, or it may have been the first time I used it, it asked me to input my Name, Initials and Organization. The Name and Initials are accessible via the Word Options/General menu, but what does it use Organization for? How can I check that this has been set correctly?

Thanks - Rowan

[macropod]

Hi Rowan,

Check under Word Options > Properties > Advanced Properties > Summary > Company. Is that what you're after?

[rowan.bradley]

Thanks for this suggestion. You don't know where this feature is in Office 2010 do you? I can't find it.

In Word 2010, under File/Options, there is no Properties. In fact if I select Customize the Ribbon and then All Commands, there are 6 "Properties" or Properties-like commands, but all for properties of specific things like tables or controls. I can't see any general Office Properties command.

Under File/Options, there is an Advanced item, but this doesn't seem to give access to anything to do with Organization either.

This looks like another example of this MS ribbon "innovation" making it soooo difficult for experienced people who have been using Office applications for over 20 years to find ordinary commands that they used to know instinctively where to find, or could very quickly find by scanning the menus.

Thanks - Rowan

[macropod]

In Word 2010, it's actually at File|Info > Properties. When you click on File, the Info screen is the default one. The Properties option is on the right-hand side of that screen, just below the document thumbnail.

The advice in my previous post was for Word 2007, which is what your profile says you're using.

[rowan.bradley]

Yes, that seems to be it. Thank you. It seems a bit confusing that this field is called Company on this screen, whereas I think it was called Organization by the installer. It's also a little strange that this page does not show the Initials field. How do I check that?

Also, since it appears that these properties belong to the currently open file, not the Office installation, I guess that if I change these properties on this screen, they will only change for this file, and it won't change those stored for the Office installation, and written into any new file created. How do I do this?

I have also found these values in the registry - I suppose in the worst case I could change them there. But I really shouldn't have to do this...

Sorry about the profile - I will update it. I have a new job and a new PC with Office 2010, so for the next period I will be using both 2007 and 2010.

Thanks - Rowan

[rowan.bradley]

Originally Posted by rowan.bradley

Sorry about the profile - I will update it.

It turns out that the forum won't allow two versions of Windows or two versions of Office. I don't really want to have to create another account, so I will just have to remember to mention that this is Office 2010 and Windows 7 (64 bit) when I'm asking questions about this installation.

Don't other people run two different versions on different PCs? How do you deal with this?

Thanks - Rowan

[macropod]

To view/change the owner/organization settings, which are stored in the Windows Registry, you could use the process outlined here:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/74...anization.html