VBA for Word - Noob needs some assistance.

I have been punted the task of creating a macro for distribution that will append <Signature:USERNAME> to a word document.

USERNAME = Current logged on user.

I have no clue what variable to use for enumerating the current logged on user in VBA.

I have been playing with various things, but due to my lack of experience with VB I have had no success.

Sub NewMacros()

Selection.TypeText Text:="<Signature:Environment.UserName>"

End Sub


I am a little familiar with WSH, but have never done anything with VBA, so any assistance would be appreciated.

Not sure if word has this, but Excel has Application.UserName, which returns the name of the person using Excel, or whoever it's registered to if they don't have to log in somehow.
To get the user name of the person logged on to the computer, use the GetUserName API. This will work in any version of VB up to and possibly including .Net, although there you can use Environment.UserName more easily. This will be their logon name, so if they log on as "smith.j" that's what you'll get.

Thanks. I will check this out.

Thanks for any assistance on this. Here is the functioning code for the future. This code will append the following text to any word document.

<SIGNATURE:DOMAIN USERNAME>

This code is intended to append a signature to a word document in conjunction with RIghtFax.


Declare Function GetUserName Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "GetUserNameA" (ByVal lpBuffer As String, nSize As Long) As Long

Sub main()

Dim str As String
Dim result As Long

result = 0
str = Space(1000)

result = GetUserName(str, Len(str))
result = Len(Trim(str))
str = Left(str, Len(Trim(str)) - 1)
'ActiveDocument.Select - Uncomment this only to replace all text in document
Selection.Text = "<SIGNATURE:" + str + ">"

End Sub