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    File location problems when using OneDrive and Office 365

    Hi everyone,

    I am using Office 365 (Excel 2016) and OneDrive, and accessing my workbooks on several different machines - work PC, home PC, macbook.

    Of course, I want to keep everything in sync, so in my OneDrive settings under Office > File Collaboration, I have ticked 'Use office 2016 to sync office files that I open'

    When I open workbooks from within Excel, it often opens the 'docs.live.net' version of the file and not the local copy on my C drive. This causes problems with macros not working properly.

    Does anyone have any tips for solving this problem? I don't want to directly reference a file location on my C drive in my macros as the workbooks are sometimes used on other PC's where the root folder names are different to mine.

    I have a feeling that this must be a common problem, any advice is welcome

    Andy

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    Re: File location problems when using OneDrive and Office 365

    What you can do is create another user on your home systems so that you can mimic the path on your work machine - then associate OneDrive with that folder. Then you can reference a file location with impunity. Works for me!
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    Re: File location problems when using OneDrive and Office 365

    Thanks +AliGW, that works great.

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    Re: File location problems when using OneDrive and Office 365

    Glad to have helped.

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