In order to utilize the Dropbox / Microsoft Office integration, you'll need to download the latest versions of the Microsoft Office for iOS apps. The Office Mobile app and older versions of the Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps don't have this integration with Dropbox. Dropbox Extensions are third-party partner integrations that let you work with your content, directly from your Dropbox account. With Extensions, users can initiate workflows across popular content types—including DWG, PDF, Microsoft Word, image, and multimedia files—and compatible partner applications from category-leading tools. At least, I used to be able to save files from Microsoft Word to dropbox and use dashes in the file name. Word says it can't save because I'm using special characters. The dash is not supposed one of those. However, I can save a Microsoft Word file with dashes in the name to any other location without a problem. Pin Your Dropbox Folder in Office 2016. Microsoft makes it easy to add your OneDrive folder or an Office 365 SharePoint location as a shortcut in the Open or Save As screens in Office. In order to utilize the Dropbox / Microsoft Office integration, you'll need to download the latest versions of the Microsoft Office for iOS apps. The Office Mobile app and older versions of the Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps don't have this integration with Dropbox.

While scrolling through Twitter, I saw a tweet about how to add Dropbox to your list of ‘save-to’ places when using Microsoft Office 2013. I do use Dropbox some. I set up an account before SkyDrive/OneDrive and it’s been pretty useful.

Sometimes it’s helpful to learn visually, so I made a short video on how to do this. First, a couple of things to prepare your computer:

Make sure you have Dropbox installed on your computer (and each identity on your computer).
You’ll need to be signed into a Microsoft Account from within any Office application (I’m using Word in the video).

Add Dropbox to Microsoft Office Save-to Options

Here’s the path for the tiny Dropbox download. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/46565/dropbox_service_add.bat You may get a warning that the file could be harmful, just click to bypass this.

Then you’ll need to get your Dropbox url to paste within the dialog box – for example, mine is C:UsersLynnDropbox. I show you how to find this in the video.

After this is completed, you should be able to go back to your document and click on the “Add a Place” and see that Dropbox is now one of your choices. When I recorded the video, evidently Dropbox was having server issues and it did not save this particular document. I’m not sure how well the service is working since I usually save my documents to either OneDrive for Business or OneDrive.

If you’re a big Dropbox and Microsoft Office user, you might want to give this a try. Let me know your experience in the comments. Thanks.

Having hit another strong writing phase, I decided to treat myself to a Surface Pro 3 (see below for my purchasing recommendations). And since I use Dropbox for all my files, imagine my disappointment to find that the Dropbox app isn’t really integrated on the Surface tablets.

But I found a really simple solution. For those of you frustrated with not being able to save directly to Dropbox, here’s how to do it:

Here’s how to get Dropbox to work with Microsoft Surface Laptops and Tablets

Since Dropbox is such a huge player in cloud storage, you’d think either they or Microsoft or both would have integrated the Dropbox app so that you would be able to both sync and save files directly to it from the desktop. Not so if you’ve downloaded the Dropbox app from the Windows Store.

The app works as a stand-alone product, so while you can access all your files, if you try to edit them, you won’t be able to save them directly back to Dropbox. Weird. I know. If I’m being kind, I’m thinking the app developer was smoking a little too much weed that day…

BUT if you download the Dropbox application from the Dropbox website (dropbox.com) rather than through the Windows App Store–Voila–it works like a charm.

Now when you go to save a word doc, the Dropbox icon will show up in the left sidebar (along with desktop, downloads, cloud, etc.), making it easy to select and save directly to it.

Now for a very quick, short review on Surface Pro 3

I wanted something highly portable and light, that would work as a tablet and a laptop. This fits the bill nicely. While this isn’t specifically a review of the Surface Pro, if you are thinking of getting one, definitely go for the Pro 3 with as much memory as you can afford for two reasons:

The Pro 3 has a much better processor and you’ll definitely appreciate the extra inch on both the screen and the keyboard. You can actually type on this thing without knotting your fingers into a ball because the keys are full-sized. Very nice indeed!
In order to set up Dropbox directly from the download, depending on how much you keep in your Dropbox, you could blow through your total storage space if it’s huge. So you’ll want to have enough memory to handle keeping everything in Dropbox without slowing everything else down to a crawl.

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