Install Support for New Word Processors

Before installing support for a new word processor, make sure you run the newly installed word processor program at least once. This creates entries for the new word processor in the Windows System Registry that HotDocs needs to properly integrate with the word processor.

When you install a new word processor and you want to use it with HotDocs, you can install support for it through HotDocs Options. If multiple users use the workstation, support for the word processor will be installed for them as well.

To install new word processor support

1. Install the new word processor and run it at least once.
2. Start HotDocs. (See Start HotDocs.)
3. At the HotDocs library, click the Options button. The HotDocs Options dialog box appears.
4. Click the Word Processors folder. The right pane changes to show a list of word processors which HotDocs supports. (Word processors for which you have already installed support are selected, while word processors that are not installed are disabled.)
5. Select the word processor for which you want to install support.
6. Click OK. The HotDocs Options dialog box closes.

Once you close the HotDocs Options dialog box, HotDocs runs the Current User Setup, which copies the required files to the correct program folders. (See Understand HotDocs Installation.)

To make the newly installed word processor the default word processor, you must manually select it after you install support for it. See Change Your Default Word Processor for details.

You may need to restart the word processor to add the correct HotDocs buttons and toolbars to it.