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I think I found the solution. If you disable the office dropbox add-in the problem doesn't seem to occur anymore. You can still save to dropbox via file explorer making it redundant anyhow. to do this, open excel, go under file, Choose "Options", and navigate to "add-ins". From there locate the Dropbox Add-in and right…
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The issue happens when a user uses the dropbox office 2016 add-on to do a save as function in excel 2016 directly into dropbox. Example: Someone sent me a .csv I open it in excel 2016 but would prefer it be saved as .xlsx . If I choose save as the dropbox option is displayed at the left. with the add-on. If you select this…
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Do we have any new information on this issue. I don't see any solutions being presented. All I have is workarounds.
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So it seems it's a problem with the save as function in general in excel not just any particular file format. The function of doing a save as to a different format is not working correctly when saving to dropbox. Wish we could get some support members to look at this and give us an idea on why this is happening and what…
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Try renaming to .csv and doing save as outside of Dropbox. Currently dealing with an identical issue and found it was still in it's original format when used the dropbox saving function in office 2016. Making it seem corrupted when it was just something in the process changes the file extension but not the actual format.
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After checking throughally it seems when this is done in Excel 2016, it saves as a CSV format but with a .xlsx file extension. Making Excel think it's corrupted when it's just under the wrong file extension. Seems to be an issue exclusively with using the dropbox saving function in office. Can someone else test this out? I…
