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Dodecahedrane
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3 years ago

Opening a Dropbox file and it goes to google slides where do i change that setting.

help I want to see the dropbox in dropbox a ppt from a teacher and i clicked always open in google docs bc it has dropbox and google docs as an option now i cant open the ppt in dropbox its a Microso...
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Dodecahedrane
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3 years ago

I'm also an an apple device 

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Jay
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3 years ago

Hi Dodecahedrane, is this a shared link to a file, or is the file in a shared folder?

 

Have you tried downloading the file to your computer in order to view it on your machine on your own copy of PowerPoint, if you have one?

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