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Changing Login Name in Acrobat Reader

Community Beginner ,
Feb 18, 2009 Feb 18, 2009

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Is there an easy way to change your login name (the name reader uses as an author name when commenting)?

It is a pretty easy process in Pro, but my Reader uses need to change their author name as well

any help?

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Community Expert , Feb 18, 2009 Feb 18, 2009
You can't change the Login Name.

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Feb 18, 2009 Feb 18, 2009

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In the preferences of Adobe Reader.

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 18, 2009 Feb 18, 2009

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Could you be alittle more specific. Because if I try to change the preference entry:

Preferences -> Identity -> Login Name

I will not change, it is locked down. What preference specifically are you changing?

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Feb 18, 2009 Feb 18, 2009

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You can't change the Login Name.

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Feb 18, 2009 Feb 18, 2009

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As that was my original question, did you misunderstand me and you are now are saying it's not possible?

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Feb 18, 2009 Feb 18, 2009

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Can you change the Login Name in the preferences of Acrobat?

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 19, 2009 Feb 19, 2009

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There are a lot of version of Acrobat. Which are you talking about?

Reader?
Standard?
Pro?
Pro Extended?

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Feb 19, 2009 Feb 19, 2009

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Pro

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Feb 19, 2009 Feb 19, 2009

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Again, in my original post I said there is a way to change the author name for commenting, but I have not found one in Reader. Do you know of one? You indicated in your first post you did. Do you?

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Feb 19, 2009 Feb 19, 2009

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Where did you change the author name for commenting?

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Guest
Nov 19, 2013 Nov 19, 2013

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Yeah, once you add a sticky note. Alt+Click on the sticky and hit Properties. Under the General Tab put your name in Author and then at the bottom check the Make Properties Default.

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Oct 31, 2014 Oct 31, 2014

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Thanks a lot!

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May 08, 2015 May 08, 2015

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When I check the Make Properties Default option, it only changes the name for that comments and goes back to the one I don't want for the next comment. Help!

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Jul 09, 2015 Jul 09, 2015

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I have the same problem.  Did you find a solution?

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Jul 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015

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After you've right-clicked and changed the name, check the box that says "Make Properties Default." That did it for me.

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New Here ,
Aug 11, 2019 Aug 11, 2019

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THANK YOU!  I inserted a sticky note, did a Right Click, clicked on Properties, clicked on the General Tab, updated my "Author Name" and put a check mark in the Make Properties Default box. I clicked on OK, and that changed the name that appears on my comments and any other notation that I mark in the PDF.  THANK YOU for providing this shortcut (I'd just spent a full 30 minutes trying to figure that out using the "Manage Account" option in Adobe. I have Adobe Reader DC, Windows 10. THANK YOU!!!!!

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New Here ,
Apr 12, 2020 Apr 12, 2020

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Thank you as well! It worked for me too!

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New Here ,
Aug 27, 2015 Aug 27, 2015

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In Acrobat Pro, if you go into Preferences and then Commenting, under the Making Comments section at the bottom, you can uncheck "Always use Log-in Name for Author Name".

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Mar 20, 2016 Mar 20, 2016

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This is the answer. Thank you very much.

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Oct 09, 2017 Oct 09, 2017

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This worked !! Thanks a lot

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Feb 11, 2016 Feb 11, 2016

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 23, 2018 Mar 23, 2018

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I have this problem too.

I use a personal laptop for work, but somehow, my son's name appears as the login, and I can't seem to change it, nor have I figured out where or how this was 'set' originally.

Changing the author's name is easy, but changing or resetting the login name is the issue.

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Explorer ,
May 17, 2018 May 17, 2018

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That is not a useful reply. I suggest Adobe to make chages that this is done. I don't want the name to appear as 'Admin'

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 07, 2018 Aug 07, 2018

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I had the same problem today and ended up calling Adobe support.  The answer is, this is a MICROSOFT LOGIN NAME, not Adobe.  You CANNOT change it through Adobe at all. Acrobat just reads this information from your Windows settings.

  • Solution One: Fix your Windows login name.  (not so obvious as it sounds - I login as "James" but Adobe says my login is "test".  I have no idea where they get that from or how to change it.)
  • Solution Two: Preferences/Commenting/Making Comments/Always use Log-in Name for Author name (Uncheck)

Solution Two solved my problem.

Can anyone from the Mac world confirm that this is a windows-only problem please?

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Jun 05, 2020 Jun 05, 2020

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for the Reader on W10 it doesn't help 😞 crazy

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