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ransomedbyfire
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2 years ago

How to view a spreadsheet on Android *without* changes being saved?

Dropbox keeps saving my changes as a separate version when I never asked it to. I am the only person who uses this spreadsheet, and I only intentionally edit on one laptop. I do sometimes view it on ...
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Hannah
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2 years ago

Hey ransomedbyfire, I'm afraid that for security reasons, we cannot open your Paper doc; can you attach your screenshots in your next reply.

 

Also, keep in mind that .xlsm is a file type that should not be supported for preview on the Dropbox mobile app.

 

Does it preview correctly on dropbox.com? And how large is the file in size?

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ransomedbyfire
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Yeah, I know Dropbox doesn't do XLSM previews (although I believe it used to since I have successfully previewed this file in the past.) And I actually like opening it in Excel on my phone. I just wish there was a way to prevent all this confusion that stems from it like how MS Teams/Excel 365 manages to not get confused when multiple people edit spreadsheets at work.

This is what I saw when I opened the spreadsheet on my laptop this morning. These screenshots are in chronological order.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This happened after I opened and closed one version of the file and then the other in Excel on my laptop.

 

 

 

 

 

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    Jay
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    2 years ago

    Hi ransomedbyfire, thanks for the info. As the Excel mobile app frequently does an auto save, even if there aren't any changes, this could be why you're experiencing this issue. Currently, there isn't a way to change this via Dropbox.

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