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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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Kat P.3
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

The most simple way around all this is to make the hyperlink link to the file where it is stored online in your Dropbox through the "https://www.dropbox.com/filename" link. You can get this link online or by clicking the right mouse button on the file stored on your computer and clicking "Copy Dropbox Link".

Working so far for me. 

 

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