Get More Stuff

You have successfully set up Red Ink with one model and are now looking for more?

This page provides you some help.

With one model configured, you have a good start, but there are so many more things you can configure and set up in Red Ink that helps you get more out of it.

Get more models, content and libraries

There are:

1. Prompt and other libraries, some are even required to run certain features like “Find Clause” or “Doc Check”.
2. Additional models you may be able to use with your API key (or you can configure more with additional API keys you may get, often at a low cost)
3. “Special Services” that allow you to access content services from within Red Ink. They also need to be configured. Some are free, others are paid.

Get them with a simple link

Option 1: You configure Red Ink manually by setting the corresponding parameters in the add-in itself or via the configuration files. Everything is documented in the manual and the installation package provides you examples.

Option 2: You use the automatic installation and downloading feature (currently only in the Preview version). This is what we recommend to users with individual setups. It works as follows:

• To get all the sample libraries, scripts and templates and have Red Ink configured itself to use them, go to the ‘Settings’ menu within Word and choose ‘Get Sample Files’. You will be guided through the process. It will download sample files to the directory of Word where the configuration file is stored (usually %appdata%/Microsoft/Word) and add the necessary settings to allow Red Ink to make use of these files. They are the same files that are available also on the “More Downloads” page here.

• To get an additional AI model or a Special Service configured, check the offerings on the right side of this page. You will see various links that contain the configuration information for models and services. Click on the button ‘Get Model/Special Service’ below:

Once you have done so, you can automatically import configuration settings for your primary model (to update it), for your secondary model (to update it), to install many more models (referred to as “alternate models”) and content and other services (referred to as “Special Services”). Here’s what you need to do:

• You will be asked to provide a link. Copy and paste the link of the model/models/service you want to import from this page. 
• Then press ‘OK’ and when the editor opens, press ‘Save’. Now this window will open and ask you which kind of settings you wish to import. We recommend to start with the alternate models (and get one of the links from Google, OpenAI or Perplexity that provide multiple variants):

• Confirm and provide your (service-provider specific) credentials (e.g., an API key), as asked by Red Ink. They will be stored in the local configuration file. Redi Ink will tell you that it will add or replace existing configuration settings, which you can confirm. Once that has happened, the configuration settings have been imported and the model or Special Service is ready to use (in the case of the primary or secondary model after reloading the configuration file).

Find out which model suits you best

We recommend to start with adding alternate models for which you have an API key, and then see whether you want to import one of the single model configurations to replace your current primary and/or secondary model to better suit your needs. You may wish to try various alternate models to find the configuration (e.g., level of reasoning) you find best for your use cases. Most use a model with low/minimum reasoning as the primary one (for daily tasks such as correcting and translating) and an auto or medium reasoning model as the secondary one. If you wish, also try out the Special Services. You can, of course, also add models and Special Services manually by editing the configuration files.

Hint: If you have configured Word for new models, then Excel and Outlook will have them available, too, as they by default share Word’s configuration settings.