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Mike Goosebumps
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5 months ago

Can I reference a workbook cell in another workbook that other people can access?

When referencing an external workbook cell from another workbook, the string that is entered is of the form 'Users/mikegoosebumps/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox-ESDT/Mike Goosebumps/Folder/[shared_fold...
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Mark
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5 months ago
Mike Goosebumps wrote:

Is there a string that can be used in place of the above to dynamically reference to the the shared folder [shared_folder_name]?

No. Sorry. Simply put these files are local to you on your machine (hence the \users location folder). Every other persons folder location will be separate and even within a shared folder they could be different as people can rename/move them AND the would be within the \user directory (and Windows equivalent). 

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