I don't have network access so I can't duplicate your set up for testing;
however, to speculate... I'm thinking that nothing gets stored in the author
field because there is nothing in the Application.UserName field (I think
Excel gets this from the General tab on Tools/Options which I'm guessing
your templates don't have filled in either). Maybe you could reach out to
the operating system and do something like this...

ActiveWorkbook.Author = Environ("UserName")

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)


"Larry S" wrote in message
...
This worked fine for the application i had intended it for, which was to
run
it inside a saveas macro that i had previously created. So that issue is
resolved, but to take it one step further how do you achieve the same
result
by simply using the excel save or saveas command? The reason i would need
to
do this is because unlike saving a workbook that was created locally by
starting excel, the workbooks are templates stored on our server and when
you
do a saveas nothing is stored in the author field.


"Rick Rothstein" wrote:

Try this...

ThisWorkbook.Author = Application.UserName

or maybe this...

ActiveWorkbook.Author = Application.UserName

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)


"Larry S" wrote in message
...
I would like the document to save the Application.UserName as the Author
of
the document when the document is saved. So when you check the
properties
of
the document and go to the Summary tab, the author of the document will
be
listed as the Application.UserName.

Thanks,
Larry