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Hi @"Nancy", thanks for your reply. On the page you linked to, I only see this fragment: "When you create a new file through Office Online, a link to this file is automatically saved to Dropbox for easy access". There is no mention of opening a file there. By the way, automatically creating a link to files in Dropbox –…
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As I said earlier — just opening a Word file (online) automatically adds links for editing and viewing. If I then manually remove both links, this no longer happens; even if I open the exact same file in the exact same way, the links are not created. I even created a new folder and a new Microsoft Word document in it –…
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Hey Hannah, that’s exactly right — I have never manually created those links, they’re automatically created when I open a Word file (through browser). I check for links in the links list. Judging by the number and dates of links to Word files, this has been happening for a long time. Rob
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Hello @"Nancy", thank you for your response. Indeed, the files I mentioned earlier were on the shared list. However, I don't recall sharing them - nor can I find a reason why I would do so. So I ran a test: I opened Dropobox in my browser and clicked on another Word file that wasn't in the shared links list. The file…
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Hi Nancy, I did. I can see I have access to both a Word file and a PDF file generated automatically during printing. Please note that this time I was working on a Mac, but the first time the situation occurred when I was working on Windows (10). In both cases in Firefox (123.0).
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And one more thing - the PDF file was created automatically from a Word file because I was printing it. Sorry for not being specific.
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Hi, thank you for your reply. It was a file in my Dropbox (I’m the owner) I accessed through the Dropbox website.
