Add-ins
Alloovium inside Microsoft 365
Two task panes — Word and Excel — that put your project's documents, registers, and AI assistant right next to whatever you're already working on.
The two add-ins, side-by-side
Word answers questions about the open document, Excel builds and audits registers.
What you get
The Alloovium add-ins are not separate products — they're the same project, documents, and AI assistant you use on the web, surfaced as a task pane inside Word and Excel. Sign in once and your active project follows you across both.
Each add-in is tuned to its host. Word focuses on what's selected in the document. Excel understands the active sheet's structure.
One install, two surfaces
The add-ins are deployed and signed in independently, but they share the same Alloovium account, the same projects, and the same Vault. Anything ingested in one shows up in the other.Choose an add-in
| Add-in | You use it for | Best when |
|---|---|---|
| Word | Ask questions about the open document, accept AI-suggested edits, run "fill" workflows that draft contract clauses from your Vault. | You're reading or marking up a contract, scope, or specification. |
| Excel | Build obligation registers, variation registers, milestone schedules, and liquidated-damages calculators directly into a sheet with citations. | You're building or auditing a register, or comparing contracts side-by-side. |
How they all work
Every add-in opens as a task pane on the right side of the host app. Click Open Alloovium in the Home ribbon and the pane slides in. The first time you open it, you'll be asked to sign in — the same login as alloovium.com.
The shared building blocks across both:
- Project picker — every action runs against an active project. Word and Excel ask you to pick one.
- Chat— natural language Q&A scoped to your project plus the current document. Every answer cites the source files it was drawn from.
- Approvals queue — anything the AI wants to write back (edits, register rows) lands in a review queue first. You accept or reject before it touches the document.
- Workflows — multi-step jobs your org has defined, like "extract obligations" or "draft RFI response", runnable from any add-in.
Shared layout
Project picker at the top, content in the middle, approvals queue at the bottom — same shape in both add-ins.
Compatibility
| Host | Required version | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Word | Microsoft 365 (any current channel) | Desktop (Windows / macOS) and Word on the web. Word 2019 perpetual is not supported — the add-in needs current Office.js APIs. |
| Microsoft Excel | Microsoft 365 (any current channel) | Desktop and Excel on the web. Custom functions (=ALLOOVIUM.*) require a recent build. |
Microsoft 365 only
The add-ins require Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365). Standalone "Office 2021" and earlier perpetual builds do not have a recent enough Office.js runtime.Next steps
- →Install & deploy — push the add-ins to your team via the Microsoft 365 admin centre, or sideload them on a single machine to try.
- →The Word add-in — chat, edits, and contract-fill workflows.
- →The Excel add-in — registers, variations, and contract comparison.