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EllKay
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

Why do I need a license to edit Word and Excel files now?

So this just happened today. I can't create new Word or Excel files, nor can I edit existing ones. There is now a paywall that says I need a commercial Office 365 version. Um what? Working for an...
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JKRW's avatar
JKRW
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

Our business has been using Dropbox for 5+ years. We all have Microsoft Office licenses for software downloaded onto our (50+ laptops). Do you mean to tell me that in order to continue using Dropbox we must now purchase 50+ MS365 licenses at $85/license annually, for as long as we want to use Dropbox?

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Fiona
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6 years ago

Hello JKRW, thank you for your first comment to our Community! 

You could alternatively, edit locally and drop the files back into Dropbox after any edition to sync them. 

Please find the FAQs for this integration, here. 

I hope this helps.

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