Installing the Saga Word add-in takes a couple of minutes. There are two ways to do it — from inside Word or from the Microsoft Marketplace. If your organization deploys it centrally, it may already be installed (see Admin setup).Documentation Index
Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.sagalegal.io/llms.txt
Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
Install from Word
Windows (Microsoft 365 / Word 2021 / 2024):- Open Word and click Add-ins in the ribbon, then More Add-ins.
- Search for Saga in the Office Add-in Store.
- Click Add.
- Go to Insert > Get Add-ins (or Store).
- Search for Saga.
- Click Add.
- Go to Insert > Get Add-ins.
- Search for Saga.
- Click Add.
- Open a document in Word for the Web (via office.com or OneDrive).
- Go to Insert > Add-ins > Get Add-ins.
- Search for Saga.
- Click Add.
Install from the Microsoft Marketplace
You can also install it directly from the Microsoft AppSource Marketplace:- Open the link and click Get it now.
- Sign in with your Microsoft account if prompted.
- Follow the on-screen instructions to add the add-in to Word.
Signing in
When you open the add-in for the first time, enter your email and your organization’s Saga URL (e.g.,https://your-firm.sagalegal.io). Saga sends you a magic link — click it to confirm, and the add-in connects to your account. You only need to do this once.
Troubleshooting
The add-in doesn’t appear in search or fails to install
- Check with your admin — On company-managed devices, your IT department may need to allow third-party Office add-ins or explicitly approve the Saga add-in.
- Check your Office license — Some Volume License (LTSC) editions have limited access to the Office Add-in Store. Your admin may need to deploy the add-in centrally instead.
- Check your sign-in — In Word, go to File > Account and make sure you’re signed in with your Microsoft account.
- Check your Word version — Go to File > Account > About Word and make sure your version is up to date. Outdated builds may have issues loading add-ins.
Sign-in fails with a Microsoft ‘account doesn’t exist’ page
This happens when Word is signed in with a different Microsoft account than the one your Saga workspace expects — common on machines that have a personal Microsoft account and a work account, or two work tenants.- Close Word completely (quit the application, don’t just close the document).
- Sign Word out of any extra Microsoft accounts. In Word: File > Account > Sign out. If you see more than one account listed, sign out of all of them, then sign back in with only the account you use with Saga.
- Clear the Office add-in cache. Microsoft maintains the current cache locations at Clear the Office cache for Windows, Mac, and Word for the Web. Only Office add-in state is removed — your documents are unaffected.
- Reopen Word, open the Saga add-in, and sign in. When the Microsoft prompt appears, pick the account you want. If no chooser is shown, click Use another account and type the email manually.
client_id= and login_hint= parameters) and send it to support — that URL identifies the account Microsoft is being pointed at and lets us pinpoint the mismatch.
Sign-in to the add-in needs to match the Microsoft account your Saga workspace is provisioned for. If Word is currently signed in with a personal
@outlook.com/@hotmail.com account but your workspace lives on a work tenant (or vice versa), authentication will fail even if the credentials themselves are valid.Sign-in fails with ‘Error during token exchange: failed to fetch’
The add-in couldn’t reach Saga’s authentication endpoint from inside Word.- Corporate firewall or proxy is the most common cause. The add-in is hosted at
word.sagalegal.ioand calls back to your tenant’s Saga host (e.g.,app.sagalegal.iooryour-firm.sagalegal.io). Both need HTTPS reachability from inside the corporate network. Ask IT to allowlist them for Office add-ins. - Stale add-in cache. Follow the cache-clear steps above.
- Office build out of date. Run File > Account > Update Options > Update Now.
The add-in pane is blank and never loads
The pane sometimes fails to load its JavaScript bundle on first open, especially on slow connections.- Close the pane and reopen it from the ribbon.
- If still blank, restart Word.
- If still blank, clear the Office add-in cache (Microsoft docs), then reopen.
word.sagalegal.io and Office itself loads the add-in runtime from Microsoft’s CDN. If your firm uses a strict network policy, confirm with IT that both are reachable.
Track changes don’t apply to footnotes
Word treats footnote content as a separate story, and the Office add-in API can’t always propagate tracked changes into it. When a suggestion targets footnote text, copy the suggestion from the add-in pane and paste it manually inside the footnote with track changes turned on. We’re working with Microsoft on a longer-term fix.Still stuck?
Contact the Saga support team with:- A screenshot of File > Account > About Word so we can see your exact Office version and platform.
- A screenshot or recording of the error you encountered.
- Whether the issue reproduces in Word for the Web (a quick way to isolate desktop vs. browser issues).
