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Katherine C.
New member | Level 1
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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8 years ago

The links wont work Barbara because as has been said the links are for your specific machine only. As soon as you are not on your machine the links are broken and so wont work. 

 

You need to use a different way to link the things together I'm afraid. 

 

Maybe used Shared Links?

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