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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 Kat, 

That will not work when you send the document, that link will only remain live to you on your own drop box on your PC, not externally.

I've found the correct way, try typing this in your cell: 

=HYPERLINK("copy and paste your drop box link here","type the name of the file you want to call it here")

 

if i want to share a estimate which is a PDF file, it will look like this:

=HYPERLINK("https://www.dropbox.com/s/blah020/blah020/blah020/blah020.pdf?dl=0","Estimate Number 1")

 

Good luck

 

Lea 

 

 

 

 

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