emailing links

[rwab]

I have an excel spreadsheet on a share drive and have been asked to email the link, how do I accomplish this so when the person requesting receives the email, they can click on the location and go right to file?

[pipsturbo]

If they have access to the same shared drive, you should be able to give them the file location on the shared drive & they should have access to it.

So for instance if the file that you mention is on the X: drive & you want to give them marketing data you could go: My Computer > X: > Marketing Data Folder > File XYZ.

You may have to check with your adminstrator for shared drive access because this is usually controlled by the network admin.

Mike

[martindwilson]

if they are asking for a link then usually there is a web based front end, like livelink
and you'd just copy the url and paste it.
however just sending the path to a shared file will not always work
it depends on how your drive is mapped it may not be the same as theirs.
say g:\docs\excel files
that may not be the full path it depends on what g is mapped to
thats what your it dept/network admin is there for to advise you, this is not really excel related as it could apply to anything!

[pike]

rwab

you may need to add "File://" and drop the drive

pike