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Link to a cell in a different Excel file saved in Dropbox
Hello everyone.
I am trying to link the value of a cell in an Excel file saved in a Dropbox folder to another cell in another Excel file saved in another Dropbox folder. Is there any way I can ...
Thank you Lusil. I read the article but it is still not clear to me whether I can do this or not. Can I somehow link the value in a cell to the value in another cell in another file, both on Dropbox? And can I update those values from different devices that share the same Dropbox folder?
Thanks for your help.
Edoardo.
Thanks for your help.
Edoardo.
Daphne
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThere isn't a limitation from Dropbox that would prevent you from doing this dodomolinari.
Please just bear in mind that in doing this, if you reference a file with the file path "C:\Daphne\Dropbox\Folder\File", that the hyperlink added into the Excel cell will only work when using the local Excel app on your computer.
If you were to open the file online with the Excel Online integration, it can't read the local file path and would give an error in the cell.
Similarly, if you use Dropbox on another computer, the username might be different. So, the filepath to the file you want to link would instead be "C:\Edoardo\Dropbox\Folder\File", for example.
I hope this helps to explain the situation a little better!
Thank you Daphne. It sounds like I cannot then use the same link if I want the file to be working from different locations but I need to update the value manually.
