[mso] Re: Changing the default user--office applications

  • From: Katherine Driskell Felts <subscriptions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 19:40:01 -0600

Thanks, Neil.  Will do.  I guess I can be happy about the sad and pathetic
nature of small human service non-profits--we've got no network!  Heck, I'm
on dialup at work!  I'll do a virus scan with up-to-date definitions,
though.

Kathie
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> From: "Neil Atwood" <natwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 06:32:37 +1100
> To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [mso] Re: Changing the default user--office applications
> 
> Katherine,
> 
> This is heading into OT territory, but I would do a full virus/trojan scan
> on that machine immediately.
> Also, make sure you are totally up to date with CRITICAL updates from
> Windows Update.
> While it's not the only cause of that error, MSBlaster and it's variants can
> be responsible.
> 
> If it is Blaster and co., then any network that that machine has been hooked
> up to could be infected too.
> 
> Regards
> ____________________________________
> Neil Atwood - Sydney, Australia
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Katherine Driskell Felts
> Sent: Saturday, 20 December 2003 4:37 AM
> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mso] Re: Changing the default user--office applications
> 
> Thanks Christine.  That worked.  Plus it fixed the email thing.  I
> figured there would be an "Options" or "Preferences" SOMEWHERE.  I just
> couldn't find it.  Next, who do I talk to about the dumb computer having
> to shut itself down on a regular basis because of a "remote Procedure
> call service terminating unexpectedly" ?
> 
> I think this is going from the correct account, lets see...
> 
> Kathie
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Christine
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 1:13 AM
> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mso] Re: Changing the default user--office applications
> 
> Have you tried change the User information in Word?  It's
> under Tools, Options, User Tab.  That should address the
> user issue in MS Office.  I don't know about Outlook
> thinking you're her. As for the Palm, if it is a Palm, not a
> Pocket PC you need Pocket Mirror installed to sync a Palm to
> Outlook.  It should have come with the Palm.  I think the
> company is chapura.
> 
> Christine
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Katherine
> Driskell Felts
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 4:08 PM
> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mso] Changing the default user--office
> applications
> 
> 
> Hey all.  I do have legit pc questions on a pc afterall.  I
> was recently hired to be the Executive Director of a local
> non-profit. Aside from not being able to figure out how to
> sync my palm with my new Outlook at work, I have one major
> problem: the old executive director is the user on all my
> applications: I inserted a comment in Excel, it had her name
> above my comment, Word defaults to her on address dealies,
> Outlook thinks I'm her, and worst of all, I gave the Center
> an email address from my own domain, set it up in Outlook,
> put my name into the set up wizard, and then emailed myself
> some stuff (though it was directly from word as I remember,
> with that little button at the top) and it just came to me
> at home with her name in the from column!  Without going
> into personalities and history, suffice it to say that this
> is a big deal.  Please help me figure out how to change it.
> I saw when one of the applications came up that she has it
> registered to herself, Executive Director.  I fear that I
> will be unable to change it because of that.  Help me oh
> wise ones!
> 
> I'd like to tell you what versions, but I'm afraid I don't
> know, though, being a non-profit, I wouldn't be surprised if
> it were Word 98  (I know it isn't for DOS!).  OS is XP Home.
> --
> Katherine Driskell Felts
> kdfconsulting
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> Program Development and Evaluation
> Planning
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