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Olbliss
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6 years ago

IPad: Dropbox and Google Sheets Integration

Does anyone have any advice on how to use the google suite with Dropbox on an Ipad? As the pictures below show, the Dropbox ipad app can't open up google sheets files, even though the google sheets...
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Daphne
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6 years ago

Hey again Olbliss, I hope you're doing well today!

At the moment, the mobile app can only be used to view your Google Sheets. To be able to edit them, you would indeed need to open the file via your browser.

Since I understand that this isn't viable for you and you prefer using the local apps on your iPad, can you try opening the Google Sheet from within the Files app into the local Google Sheets app?

Let me how it goes - thanks!

Olbliss's avatar
Olbliss
Collaborator | Level 8
6 years ago
Daphne wrote:

Since I understand that this isn't viable for you and you prefer using the local apps on your iPad, can you try opening the Google Sheet from within the Files app into the local Google Sheets app?

Opening from the files app has the same problem: it wants to save the file to Google Drive before opening. So I can open google sheets, but would have to re-save to Dropbox after I have finished with a file.

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