Category: Technical FAQ

When new version will be available you will see yellow bar in you main app. Please close or Office programs as their add-ins will be upgraded together with main app. You can click on yellow bar:

or go to Help > Check for update.

Select 'Macrobond <higher version number>, you will see new window, press 'Install':

Macrobond will close itself (and ask for closing Office program if they are still open), download update and start installing it. If you do not have admin rights you will see another window:

In such case please contact your IT department.

If you do not have the time at the moment, you can press Esc key, open Macrobond and use it as always.

Your company disabled it. The whole updating process is being performed by your IT department.

Contact your IT department, they will provide you with one or use their own to update your Macrobond.

If your company has decided to use packages, you will find them in your company's internal resources.

• How can I update my Macrobond?
• Where can I find packaged version of an update?
• Where can I obtain admin rights?
• Why I don’t see yellow bar?

• How to sign in/log in to Macrobond?
• How to get credentials (login & password)?
• How to change my password?
• How to sign out/log off of Macrobond?

When your company will send us a list of users we will create accounts. Login is always user's email and we will send credential to it, with password in encrypted form.

If you did not receive such email but you should have a Macrobond account, please contact Support.

For more information see:
How to change my password?
How to sign out/log off of Macrobond?

Go to installation page, scroll to the 'Install from downloaded files'. Press on 'Macrobond installation files for Windows' and download zipped package.

Shorter method (recommended)

It does the same as 'Longer method' but you don't have to install each file separately, it will do it for you.

Open zip file, navigate to the install.bat file and run it

You will see new window with 'Macrobond XY-bit Setup'. Press 'Next':

Select installation folder, press 'Next':

It's ready for installation. Press 'Install':

The whole process is automated. At the end you will see:

Press 'Finish'.

Longer method

It does the same as 'Shorter method' but here you have to install each file separately.

Open zip file, navigate to pkg folder. You will find there two files.

First install .msi file, then .msp. Macrobond will work only when you install both of them in that order.

After running first file you will see new window with 'Macrobond XY-bit Setup'. Press 'Next':

Select installation folder, press 'Next':

It's ready for installation. Press 'Install':

The whole process is automated. At the end you will see:

Press 'Finish'.

You have successfully installed base for the main app. But you cannot use Macrobond yet. Go back to pkg folder from zipped file. Run second file (.msp file starting with 'Patch'). This will upgrade your Macrobond to the newest version.

You will see new window with 'Macrobond XY-bit Setup'. Press 'Upgrade':

The whole process is automated. At the end you will see:

Press 'Finish'. Now you can use your Macrobond.

Please close all opened Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). Go to installation page, scroll to the 'Download the setup program' button and press it.

It will download launcher .exe program. Run it, you will see a new window with 'Macrobond XY-bit Setup'. Press'Next':

Select installation folder, press 'Next':

It's ready for installation. Press 'Install':

The whole process is automated. At the end you will see:

Press 'Finish'. Now you can use your Macrobond.