To use the Blackbaud Communications add-in, you must first install it from the Utilities link on the Start screen. When you install the add-in, a Blackbaud Mailings group appears on the Mailings tab of the ribbon in Microsoft Word 2007. With the add-in, you can select the merge fields from your database to use and set up a correspondence process as you create a document in Word.
To install the add-in, click Utilities on the Start screen. On the Utilities, Gadgets and Reference page, click Blackbaud Communications Word Add-in Deployment Utility under ClickOnce Utilities. The Microsoft Office Custom(Undefined variable: bbinstal.iz)ation Installer screen appears and automatically installs the add-in and any prerequisites.
Note: To install the Microsoft Word 2007 add-in for Blackbaud Communications, in addition to Microsoft Office 2007, you must also have Windows Installer 3.1; .NET Framework 3.5, service pack 1; Microsoft Office 2007 Primary Interop Assemblies; and Visual Studio Tools for the Office System 3.0 Runtime, service pack 1 installed. If you do not have these prerequisites installed, the deployment utility automatically installs them. To install some prerequisites, the deployment utility may require administrative rights. If you already have the prerequisites installed, you can click Blackbaud Communications Word Add-in under ClickOnce Utilities to install only the plug-in.