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AlisonRose
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Can only view the first page of documents on the Dropbox website

I have a few very long text docs in Dropbox, and I opened one to verify which version it was, but I can only see the first page. I can't scroll and there does not seem to be any "next page" button an...
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Jay
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2 years ago

Hi AlisonRose, what kind of document are you trying to preview, is it a Pages document, or some other file type? 

 

In general, Pages documents will only show the first page when previewed on the Dropbox site, as per this article.

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AlisonRose
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Yes, it is a Pages doc. (I will note, it is not easy to find whatever info someone is looking for in the help section.) And okay, but then why when I downloaded it did my computer tell me it was "damaged" and couldn't be opened?

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