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Bowmanh23's avatar
Bowmanh23
New member | Level 2
7 years ago

File will Only Open in Excel Online

Hi! I work from home and share an excel file with other employees. We all make edits to the file and save it so others can see. Typically when I open files, I choose to open them on my desktop and no...
  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    7 years ago

    You will have to work on this file from within your Dropbox Folder Bowmanh23 (meaning that you'll need to have the desktop app running and this file located within your Dropbox folder's structure) - or else the changes you make won't sync back to our servers and therefore to other linked (to your account) computers or even on the machines of other collaborators. 

    Let me know if this helped please.

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