Changing Login Name in Acrobat Reader

[_Dave_Rioux_]

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?

[Bernd Alheit]

In the preferences of Adobe Reader.

[_Dave_Rioux_]

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?

[Bernd Alheit · Accepted solution]

You can't change the Login Name.

[_Dave_Rioux_]

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

[Bernd Alheit]

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

[_Dave_Rioux_]

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

Reader?
Standard?
Pro?
Pro Extended?

[Bernd Alheit]

Pro

[_Dave_Rioux_]

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?

[Bernd Alheit]

Where did you change the author name for commenting?

[Guest]

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.

[liu_chenguang]

Thanks a lot!

[laurak922]

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!

[jennifers55784053]

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

[jeffreyr30356507]

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

[Jan Kovarik]

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!!!!!

[MO907]

Thank you as well! It worked for me too!

[kerryellen]

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".

[tanerb21607589]

This is the answer. Thank you very much.

[ac48809420]

This worked !! Thanks a lot

[BluSleeper]

This is the answer. change author on a comment (Acrobat Reader)

[davidf34949845]

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.

[sajit63]

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'

[XeataJames]

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?

[Guest]

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