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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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Lea B.3
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

Hi All, 

Sharing a Dropbox link in a Excel file....

I have the same problem to... I have a Excel spread sheet we use to track estimates.. We have one folder on Dropbox with all our estimates in as pdf's, we want to email the Excel spreadsheet tracker out to colleagues allowing them to click on the shared hyperlink we have pasted on to the spread sheet taking them to each individual pdf, but when they click on the link they receive an error message "Cannot open the specified file" we know the links are live & the spread sheet is fully active with no restrictions, but what i find even more strange is if i email the the spread sheet back to myself, using the same PC i made the spread sheet with & me being spreadsheet author and Dropbox owner i to receive the same error message... 

Im sure its a easy fix, but can someone please help us...?

Regards Lea.

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