Anyone knows how to get the author's name from the current document using
wordbasic/ole?.

Straight from the WordBasic help file (w/minor modifications for what
you want--I think):

        FileSummaryInfo .Update 'Update document statistics

        Dim dlg As DocumentStatistics   'Create a dialog record

        GetCurValues dlg        'Fill record with values

        MsgBox "Number of words: " + dlg.Words
        MsgBox "Document author is " + dlg.LastSavedBy

Alternatively, you could do the following:

        FileSummaryInfo .Update 'Update document statistics

        Dim dlg As FileSummaryInfo      'Create a dialog record

        GetCurValues dlg        'Fill record with values

        MsgBox "Document author is " + dlg.Author

Hope this helps.

Mike
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