If the installation just does not work for some reason, the most common cause of that is if you have, some document management third party software installed that's kind of interfering with Word's ordinary, saving process, then it's possible for our installation routine to fail.

Another situation is where you need to distribute an installation across a whole office with a whole lot of computers, and you want a, a different way to do it that you can automate rather than going around to each computer individually.

So, the way you manually install, either the Form Tool or Docsara is basically you're just doing a file save as command. The trick is to know where to save it and what file type to use. So first, let's talk about where you're gonna be saving this file. If you open up Word, what we're looking for is what's called Word's startup folder, and you can find out where that is on your computer by clicking file, options.

On the left, choose advanced.

Scroll down to the bottom and click the file locations button.

The location we're interested in is this startup location. Select that and click modify. It's listed here, but it's truncated. You can't read the whole thing.

So click modify, and then up here at the top, if you click in this, address box up at the top, it will show you the full path here. This is the location where we're gonna be saving our file, and I'm just gonna rather than remember that and try and recreate it, I'm just gonna select the whole path, and I'm pressing control c to copy it so that I'll be able to paste that in later. That's the place where we're gonna save the file. Now given that information, I can close out of all those screens, and I can go to my zip file that I downloaded.

You'll see the Formtool or Docsoraw, installation template there.

You'll double click to open it, and just as usual, you may have to click the enable editing button up at the top and even the enable content button up at the top.

And when it asks you about the license agreement, if it asks you about the license agreement, it may not even get this far. But if it does, say no here because instead of proceeding with the automatic installation, we're gonna do a manual installation. So I'm gonna say no.

And now I'm just in Word here. I can do whatever I want. What I want to do is save this template to that location in a particular way. So I'll click file, save as, and first save as type. You need to save it not as the default type that pops up. You need to save it as a Word macro enabled template, a DOTM file.

Having chosen that, you then need to choose the location where you're going to save it, and I'm just going to delete what's there up at the top and press control v to paste in the path that I copied earlier.

That's my startup folder, and then pressing enter to select that.

And I already have a couple of files saved there.

That's fine. You can just ignore those on your computer. That may be empty, or you may have other files there. That's fine. That's not gonna hurt anything. And then you'll click the save button, and it will save your template to that startup folder location. I'm not gonna do it right now because it would be duplicating, something I've already got on my computer.

So you'll click save there to finish saving, and then you will close Word and reopen Word, and the program will be installed.

So that's how to manually install it. And then for those who are distributing the program across a whole batch of computers in an office, if you just create a batch file or some automated script to distribute that file to that location on each computer. That'll save you the trouble of going around to each computer and running the installation routine on each one.