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Katherine C.'s avatar
Katherine C.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Sharing links in Excel spreadsheet - opens dropbox but not link

Hi I hope someone can help with this probably simple problem. I have an excel spreadsheet that I want to share links to documents with. I find my document in dropbox, right click, share link get the ...
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Eric B.5
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

I am having the same problem, too. Uploaded to my Dropbox are an Excel Spreadsheet containing links to photos, and the photos themselves. When I click on the links in the Excel file, however, I get a message window saying that I can't access the photo files. I can go directly to and open the photos, of course, but I need to be able to see where they each tie in to the Excel file. -Eric

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