The MS Add-in can be centrally deployed and controlled by an Office 365 Administrator.

Word Add-in System Requirements

As a MS Word Add-in the Workbooks Add-in is available across multiple different versions of Word. 

The Word Add-in is compatible with the following MS Word Versions:

•    Office 365 for Windows
•    Office 365 for Mac  
•    Office 365 Online

Deployment to Office 365

The Word Add-in can be installed for all your users or specific groups of users using the Office 365 Admin Centre. This is the recommended method of installing the Word Add-in as it saves time because the Add-in can be deployed en masse, rather than installing it on a per user basis. Once configured you can then add or remove users from these groups to install or uninstall the Add-in on their behalf. 

To deploy the Add-in en masse log in to the Office 365 Admin Centre as an Administrator. Then expand the Settings menu (cog icon) on the left-hand side of the page and select Services & add-ins.

Once selected you will be taken to a new page, from here select the Deploy Add-in button at the top of the page.

This will open a new dialogue box explaining how centralised deployment works. On this screen click Next.

You will now be presented with three options of how you would like to deploy the Word Add-in. Choose ‘I have a URL for the manifest file’ and enter: https://www.workbooks.com/workbooks_word_addin_manifest.xml

Now you can configure which Users have access to the Word Add-in. You can choose from Everyone, Specific users/groups or Just me. 

Selecting Specific users/groups will create a new dropdown menu where you search for the users or groups required.Selecting the user or group will add them to the list for deployment, allowing you to select multiple users or groups.

Once you have finalised who to deploy the Add-in, press the Deploy now button at the bottom of the page. The Add-in will now be available to those users or groups.

 
The deployment of the Add-in may take a few minutes to complete and Office will notify you once the installation is complete. Users need to restart Word in order to see the Word Add-in appear in their instance.

Once Complete and Users have restarted MS Word they will now see a Workbooks Icon appear in the top right-hand corner of the screen in the Home Bar.

Selecting this button expands the sidebar and allows users to start using the Add-in as needed.