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From: thomas@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Thomas Summerall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Changing Name Registration in Microsoft Products
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Date: 17 Aug 89 17:31:28 GMT
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Reply-To: thomas@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Thomas Summerall)
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Before I start I will say that I admire Microsoft's policy of not copy-
protecting its business software.  This is very professional and makes life
easier for a lot of people.

Now here is the weird thing.  What if you make a mistake when you are typing
in the name with which you register the program?  It is a confusing dialog
for beginner Mac users.  What if they don't know that  sends them to the
next text rect?  What if they think  does because they have used other
non mac computers in the past?  In fact,  activates the OK button!
And this is exactly what happened to a woman who came in to our area today
wanting us to change her screwed up name.

How do you do this?  I can use FEdit or MacSnoop to find the name, but how
is it formatted?  Does anyone know?  It doesn't work if you just change the
letters.  I guess it's missing some delimiter, but I don't know what it wants.
Someone must have done this before...I'm sure it must happen all the time.

Microsoft refuses to support this, but I'm not quite sure why.  Registration
names have little to do with serial numbers.

Thanks...

Thomas Summerall
thomas@eleazar.dartmouth.edu