I installed Office 2013 on a computer when one person used it.  Someone else
now has it.  Every time a Word document is created it uses the old person's
name.  How can I change the default author name to someone else?  Also, how to change it in the other Office 2013 programs or how to change it globally.  OFFICE 2013 please.  Than

To change the default name in your Word 2013, refer to the following steps:

1.Initialize the MS Word 2013 program.

2.On the program window, select FILE from the menu bar.

3.On the Info screen, from the bottom right corner, under the Related People section,

 click the Add an author field.

4.Type your name to use it as the author of the document.

5.Delete other existing author names by right-clicking on them, and clicking on the Remove Person option in order to use your name as the default author.

 Now restart the MS Word application. On the Info page you will be able to see the new authors name that you just added. As a side note, MS Word has an option of adding the names in the Author section by using your contacts book or from online global contacts.

Note: You can also edit, rename, or remove the names from the Related People section.

To apply it globally, I have checked in both Group policy and OCT, and have not yet found a way to accomplish it.

Tylor Wang
TechNet Community Support

• Marked as answer by Tony Chen CHNMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Friday, January 24, 2014 2:50 AM

I didn't find that this worked.  I can add a different author name, but mine name keeps appearing when trying to put in comments and the like.  It used to be when I didn't want my name to show in the comments, but a generic name (ie my company), I could change the User Name in Options, and it would use that for the Comments names.  Any way of d

I totally missed seeing that little checkbox.  Thank you.  That did