Sharing links in Excel spreadsheet - opens dropbox but not link

[Katherine C.]

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 address and then post this into excel as a hyperlink. Once the hyperlink opens it opens my dropbox to a blank page not to the specified document. How to do do this properly?

[Mark]

The links wont work Barbara because as has been said the links are for your specific machine only. As soon as you are not on your machine the links are broken and so wont work. 

You need to use a different way to link the things together I'm afraid. 

Maybe used Shared Links?

[BarbaraHarris]

The problem is that I want a community of about 10 to access around 200+ files, some of which are zipped and contain up to 6 individual files. I understand about using drop box links rather than the document hyperlinks and it worked yesterday, but I am really confused because my colleague with whom i have collaborated says that he can access the files via the hyperlinks! Also, I suspect that I will have to unzip and get the drop box link for each separate document, probably around another 100 links or so. oh dear...

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