The best place to install Citation Checker is the Office\Startup or WORD\Startup folder. You install the program by copying the file to the folder. After installation, Citation Checker will be available the next time you start WORD.

For WORD versions before 2007: by default, the Startup folder is located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office (or Office xx)\Startup, or perhaps C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office (or Office xx)\Word\Startup. When Office was installed, an option to change that location was available. If the option was exercised (either overtly by you or covertly by a program you installed), you need to find the Startup folder. You can always find the location via the Tools Menu in WORD. Navigate your way through Tools, Options, File Locations, Startup.  Once the program has been placed in the Startup folder, it will remain there. When a new version of the program becomes available on this site, just copy the new version over the previous one. Whenever you start WORD, Citation Checker will appear as an item in the Tools Menu. To use the program, simply click on Citation Checker while your manuscript is on the screen.

The security settings in WORD are designed to protect the computer from unsafe macros. When Citation Checker is installed, WORD may be unhappy and warn you about the impending invasion. You can get rid of that warning by changing your security setting (via Tools, Macro, Security) to "LOW", but that is not recommended because there are bad macros out there.

The better way to eliminate the warning is to tell WORD that Citation Checker is safe because it has come from a trusted source. Citation Checker has been digitally signed by David J. Weiss. How you inform WORD may vary slightly depending on your configuration. The objective is to tell Word to trust installed add-ins. If you can make David J. Weiss a trusted source via Tools, Macro, Security, Trusted Publishers (or Trusted Sources), do so by typing David J. Weiss in the text box. Check "Trust all installed add-ins and templates". Then click OK, and WORD will remember that Citation Checker is trustworthy.

For WORD 2007 or WORD 2010, life is a little more complicated. The Word\Startup folder may be a little hard to find. For Windows 7 and the Vista operating systems, the default location is the rather obscure (C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\WORD\Startup). That is where the program should go. (If you maintain multiple versions of WORD, copy the program to all of the Startup folders.) The security issue is addressed most simply by ensuring that the Startup folder is a Trusted Source. Verify that by clicking on the Big Button, then Word Options. Select Trust Center, then Trust Center Settings... That will open a window entitled Trusted Locations. The path to the Word\Startup folder should appear in that list. If it does not, then add that path to the list by clicking on Add new location... Make sure that the little box left of Disable all Trusted Locations is unchecked.

There is a fairly simple way to have WORD tell you the location of its startup folder. Open WORD, then click <Alt>+F11 to open the VB Editor. Next, open the Immediate window by clicking <Control>+G. Type "MsgBox Application.StartupPath" (without the quotes) and click the Enter key. What appears on the screen is the desired location for Citation Checker.dot and the license file.

Because Microsoft eliminated the Tools menu, Citation Checker no longer appears automatically and you have to access it manually. With your manuscript on the screen, access Citation Checker by clicking on Add-Ins, then run Citation Checker by clicking its name. If Citation Checker does not appear when you click on Add-Ins, the problem is surely that you didn't find the correct place. 

The version of the Citation Checker program that you download from this site has limited functionality. When you have purchased your personalized license, you will receive a license file that should also be installed in the same folder as Citation Checker. Installation of that license (simply copy it to the folder) will unlock the full set of program features. 

A program user discovered another, perhaps easier for those who are comfortable with Windows, way to access the template if you are using WORD 2007 or WORD 2010. He created a folder in the Program Files directory, then copied the template and the personalized license to that folder. Then he created a desktop shortcut to the template. Double-clicking the shortcut opens WORD. Next, open the manuscript you want to check. For WORD 2007 there is a tab called Add-Ins, and for WORD 2010 there is a ribbon tab called Add-Ins. Citation Checker will appears when you click on Add-Ins. Click Citation Checker to run the program.

The personalized license grants you the right to run Citation Checker on your home, office, and laptop computers. You may not transfer the license to another person, nor share it with others in your organization. The price of the license is $25 USD. The license will have your name attached to it.