It's very easy to download and install a program update, and it's very important that you learn to do it because that's how most software companies are making the latest version available to their users. In the past, users just had to live with whatever bugs were present until the next major version of the software was released. Program updates allow users to always have the cleanest possible version of the software.
First, compare the version on your program's Help>About dialog to the current update number for your program shown on our web site. If the update is newer, you should install it.
The recommended method is to click on the update and then open/run it from our web site instead of saving a copy to your hard drive. The update will automatically find your existing program and update it.
If you prefer to download the update, select the Save option. Your browser will ask you where you want to save it--we recommend that you NOT save it to your main program folder because if you choose that folder and you point it to the main program file, you will REPLACE the program with the update. Instead, save it to a temporary folder on your hard drive. Then, locate the update via Windows Explorer or My Computer, and double-click on the update to run it. The update will automatically find your existing program and update it.
Many of our program updates can also be saved to a single diskette. If the single-file update is too large to fit on a diskette, you may need to copy the file to a CD or you can use WinZip or a similar program to split the file across multiple diskettes. Having the update on CD or diskette(s) makes it easy to give copies to other leaders who are using the software.
Each leader using the software must install the program update. Simply giving another leader a set of backed up data files will not update that leader's program.
If you've missed installing an earlier update, don't worry. The most recent update ALWAYS includes all of the changes from previous updates. In other words, if you are running V2.00b, installing a V2.00e update will implement both the V2.00c and the V2.00d changes.