Picking up currently logged in user name with VBA

[wolfstar777]

I need a way to pick up the name the currently logged in user. The OS is windows NT 4 and the code will form part of an Excel module. It doesn't matter where the name comes from, if someone has a way of extracting the information from the registry I can adapt the code to suite my system. Thanks in advance.

[Cakkie]

This will do the job

Declare Function GetUserName Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "GetUserNameA" (byval
lpBuffer as string, nSize as Long) as Long

Function GetUser() as string

Dim lpUserID as string
Dim nBuffer as Long
Dim Ret as Long
lpUserID = string(25, 0)
nBuffer = 25
Ret = GetUserName(lpUserID, nBuffer)

If Ret <> 0 then
GetUser = lpUserID
End If

End Function




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[Martin Smith]

Or

Environ("UserName")