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Looking up a value in an Excel file in Dropbox.

Our company has one excel file in dropbox and another file on my computer looks up a value from a column in the dropbox file. Others need to use the file on my computer, so is there a way to change the link so it will work for everyone? current formula is VLOOKUP(A17,'C:\Users\myusername\Dropbox\foldernameindropbox\[filename.xlsx]worksheetname'!$G:$H,2,FALSE).

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Megan

Hey @donf13, I hope you're doing well!

Just to make sure we're on the same page here: will the rest of the people be using a different user profile, or the same one?

I'm assuming based on everything you mentioned, that they'd use different profiles, right?

Let me know more, and we'll take it from there!

Rich

@donf13 wrote:
Others need to use the file on my computer, so is there a way to change the link so it will work for everyone?

As you've discovered, Excel uses full paths when linking or referencing another file, and will not work with a relative path or an environment variable (such as %USERPROFILE%). The only solution would be to relocate the Dropbox folder for each user so that it's in a common location, such as C:\Dropbox, so everyone is using the same full path.

You might be able to set a custom variable using VBA, and then use that variable in the lookup path, but I've never tried that. Try Google for more information on that.

donf13

each has their own user profile