Install the Word Plugin via Manifest File

Some organizations can’t install Office add-ins from the Microsoft marketplace: the Office Store may be disabled by policy, or the deployment may need to point at a self-hosted Pactly server. In those cases an administrator deploys the Pactly Word plugin by uploading its manifest file directly.

This is the manual path, and it owns the manifest upload steps for the section. If your organization can reach the Store, use the normal install instead, see Installing the Word Plugin.

Download the manifest file. Open app.pactly.ai/word/manifest.xml in a browser.

If the XML opens in the browser instead of downloading, right-click the page and choose Save As to save manifest.xml to your device. You’ll select this file during the upload step.

You upload the manifest once in the Microsoft 365 admin center and assign it to the users or groups who should have the plugin. They then see it in Word automatically.

The admin center confirms a successful deployment. The assigned users and groups can now open the plugin from the Word ribbon.

Once the plugin is deployed, each user opens it from the Word ribbon and signs in with their Pactly account. In My Add-ins and on the ribbon, the entry may appear under its listing name Pactly Legal Checker rather than “Pactly”, it is the same plugin. For credentials, single sign-on, and password resets, see Signing in to Pactly (Getting Started).

If a user opens the plugin but it won’t load, see Word Plugin Not Loading.

• Installing the Word Plugin
• Word Plugin Not Loading
• Signing in to Pactly (Getting Started)