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Katherine C.
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11 years ago

Sharing links in Excel spreadsheet - opens dropbox but not link

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 ...
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Mark
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10 years ago

It sounds like you've actually used relative links Lea - as in the work on that one machine only as they point to local folders (le. Lea's Work\Dropbox\Excel\Quotes). As soon as the excel file is ANYWHERE else those links fail. 

The only way around it I can think is to use Shared Links which when clicked would open the Dropbox webpage and an electronic PDF for your staff to view. 

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