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Katherine C.
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10 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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9 years ago

Hi again :)

If they work pasted in emails etc. then it isnt a Dropbox issue..... annoyingly it sounds like Excel is 'tweaking' them and doing something to the data. No idea what that is however!

One quick thing to check is that when you are using the links in Excel that Excel is told they are web links (so it is treating them as HTTP and not trying to open a folder on your machine). 

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