How to show current user name in a cell?

Question

In most of the online resource I can find usually show me how to retrieve this information in VBA. Is there any direct way to get this information in a cell?

For example as simple as =ENVIRON('User') (which did not work)

Answer 1

if you don't want to create a UDF in VBA or you can't, this could be an alternative.

=Cell("Filename",A1) this will give you the full file name, and from this you could get the user name with something like this:

=Mid(A1,Find("\",A1,4)+1;Find("\";A1;Find("\";A1;4))-2)

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This Formula runs only from a workbook saved earlier.

You must start from 4th position because of the first slash from the drive.

Answer 2

Without VBA macro, you can use this tips to get the username from the path :

=MID(INFO("DIRECTORY"),10,LEN(INFO("DIRECTORY"))-LEN(MID(INFO("DIRECTORY"),FIND("\",INFO("DIRECTORY"),10),1000))-LEN("C:\Users\"))

Answer 3

Based on the instructions at the link below, do the following.

In VBA insert a new module and paste in this code:

Public Function UserName()
    UserName = Environ$("UserName")
End Function

Call the function using the formula:

=Username()

Based on instructions at:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Create-Custom-Functions-in-Excel-2007-2f06c10b-3622-40d6-a1b2-b6748ae8231f

Answer 4

Example: to view the Windows User Name on Cell C5, you can use this script :

Range("C5").Value = ": " & Environ("USERNAME").

Answer 5

The simplest way is to create a VBA macro that wraps that function, like so:

Function UserNameWindows() As String
    UserName = Environ("USERNAME")
End Function

Then call it from the cell:

=UserNameWindows()

See this article for more details, and other ways.

Answer 6

This displays the name of the current user:

Function Username() As String
    Username = Application.Username
End Function

The property Application.Username holds the name entered with the installation of MS Office.

Enter this formula in a cell:

=Username()