Word User Information and Entourage Address Book   

I have a somewhat unusual problem that I've encountered in trying to
move to Entourage 2008 from Apple Mail that involves Entourage picking
up information from Word 2008's settings and creating a conflict for
my address book.

I am a writer and am currently going through an electronic edit of my
latest book in Word 2008 with my publisher. We are using track
changes. My publisher asked me to change my Word User Information to
read "Author" as opposed to my name, because this electronic version
will be seen by many people and they were trying to make it clear to
the team which initials were the author's. (They are using Windows
Word, which I guess uses the initials more than names.) So when I make
an edit or add a comment in the manuscript, the comment balloon shows
"Author Author" (I have to enter both a first name and surname in the
Word User Information setting.) All was going fine until yesterday,
when I decided to move my emails to Entourage 2008 from Apple Mail.
All emails sent from the email address listed in the Word User
Information were relabeled to being by "Author Author" and any emails
sent from that account (before I discovered the problem) were listed
as coming from "Author Author".

I deleted the email address from Word User Information, found the
address contact for my real name, and used the "This Is Me" option
under the Contact menu in Entourage to tell it that my real name was
me, not Author Author. I thought this had solved it, but re-entering
the Author Author name in Word User Information is creating another
Entourage Address Book entry as Author Author, that thinks it again is
me, and is in fact "trumping" my real name address book entry. I know
this is an unusual situation, but is there any way to tell Entourage
not to use the Word User Information setting? I need to stay "Author
Author" in the Word User Information setting for the next few weeks;
which seems to preclude using Entourage with my real name.

Any advice greatly appreciated. Thank you.

date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:30:03 -0700 (PDT)   author:   unknown

Re: Word User Information and Entourage Address Book   

My apologies, I forgot to include my tech info in my initial posting:

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Processor: Intel
Email Client: pop, imap

date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:41:23 -0700 (PDT)   author:   unknown

Re: Word User Information and Entourage Address Book   

"madlywriting@gmail.com" wrote:

> Any advice greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I'm checking with someone that uses Word in the college environment to see
if I can get you a good answer.

-- 
Diane

date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:15:57 -0700   author:   Diane Ross