Install Definition Intelligence
Two ways to add Definition Intelligence to Word. Pick whichever matches.
First, download the file
This small file tells Word where Definition Intelligence lives. The file is not the program, so nothing is installed on the computer and nothing needs updating later.
Installing for yourself
One person, on your own computer. About a minute, and only once.
- Open Word.
- On the Insert tab, click Add-ins.
- Choose My Add-ins.
- Click Upload My Add-in, at the top right of that window.
- Choose the file downloaded above, then click Upload.
- A Definitions button appears on the Home tab. Click the button to open the panel.
The same steps work on Word for Mac.
Installing for a firm
Your IT administrator does this once, and Definition Intelligence appears for everyone chosen. Most firms prefer this route, because staff are not asked to install anything.
- Sign in to the Microsoft 365 admin centre at admin.microsoft.com as a global administrator.
- Go to Settings, then Integrated apps.
- Click Upload custom apps.
- Choose Office Add-in, then upload the file downloaded above.
- Assign the add-in to the people holding licences, then finish the deployment.
Definition Intelligence then appears in Word for those people automatically. Microsoft can take a few hours to roll a new add-in out across a tenant.
After installing
Open a contract and click Definitions on the Home tab.
Sign in with the email address used to buy. That address carries the licence, not the computer, so the same licence works on a laptop, a desktop and Word on the web.
- Signed into Word with a work or school Microsoft account? Sign-in is silent, with nothing to click.
- Any other address, including Gmail? The panel asks for the email address and sends a six digit code.
Bought several licences? Assign them on the manage page.
What Definition Intelligence needs
- Microsoft Word on Windows or Mac, or Word on the web, through a Microsoft 365 subscription.
- An internet connection, because the panel runs from this website rather than from the computer.
Your documents never leave your computer. Definition Intelligence reads the open document inside Word and sends nothing anywhere. Signing in tells us who you are, never what you are reading.
If something does not work
Email support@definitionintelligence.com and say which step went wrong. A reply comes from a person.