Add Dropbox as a Place in Microsoft Office

A “Place” in Microsoft Office is a location you can access directly from your Office apps, without using Windows File Explorer. Add Dropbox as a Place to open, share, and save files using Dropbox from within Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

After you add Dropbox as a Place, you can:

Save to Dropbox directly from the menu options in an Office app
Open from Dropbox directly from the menu options in an Office app
Click Share in an Office application to share using Dropbox

Requirements

To add Dropbox as a Place in Office, you must:

Use a Windows computer
Run version 27 of the Dropbox desktop app or later
Have Microsoft Office 2013 or 2016

Add Dropbox as a Place

You can add Dropbox as a Place through your Dropbox preferences:

Click the Dropbox icon in your system tray.
Click the gear.
Choose Preferences….
Check the box next to Show Dropbox as a save location in Microsoft Office.