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Installing Oracle BI Office Plug-In

Operating System: Windows only.

This topic is part of Installing Oracle BI Ancillary Client Programs.

Oracle Business Intelligence Office Plug-In is a Windows application that is an optional feature under the Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services. The Plug-In provides a way to browse the Analytics catalog, select a report, and then drop that report into Microsoft Word or Excel. This document may be saved and the data refreshed as needed. For information on how to use the Office Plug-In feature, see the Oracle Business Intelligence Answers, Delivers, and Interactive Dashboards User Guide.

The installation program for Office Plug-In is located on the Oracle Business Intelligence Windows installation CD-ROM.

Before installing this feature, the following programs must be installed on the client machines that run the Office Plug-In:

• .NET Framework (the runtime must be running)
• An appropriate version of Microsoft Office, containing Microsoft Word and Excel (see System Requirements and Supported Platforms)

To install the Oracle BI Office Plug-In under Windows

1. From the installation CD-ROM folder Oracle_Business_Intelligence_Office_Plug-In, or from the network location that contains the Office Plug-In files, run the program setup.exe.
2. The installation wizard Welcome window appears and prompts you through each screen.

   To continue to the next screen, click Next. If you need to return to a previous screen, click Back.

   Screen	Your Action
   Welcome	Click Next.
   Installation Directories	To accept the default installation (C:\Program Files\Oracle Business Intelligence\OracleBI Office Plug-In), click Next. To change the default (recommended), click browse and establish the installation path, then click Next.
   Oracle BI Presentation Services URL	Oracle BI Office Plug-In requires an Oracle BI Presentation Services URL (that is, a Web location) to retrieve data from. The format should be as in the following example: http://localhost:9704/analytics
   Summary Information	The directory where the Office Plug-In is to be installed and the installation size are shown. Click Next.
   Installing	Placeholder screen that appears while the installer installs the Office Plug-In. When done, click Next.
   Summary Information	Choose whether or not to immediately restart your computer and click Finish. If you click Yes ..., the computer shuts down and restarts. If you click No..., you need to restart the computer before you use Oracle Business Intelligence.