How Can I add DropBox as a "Place" in Office 2016

Question

I would like to add DropBox as a "Place" that will show up as one of the defaults in the Save/Open menu in Office 2016. The Add a Place function provided only offers Office 365 SharePoint and OneDrive as options. Instructions found to pin the location have not worked for me and the DropBox forum post doesn't make things sound so promising.

Does anyone know of a way to get this to work until either DropBox or MS gets their act together?

Solution

You can add Dropbox to Office 2016 (tested on Windows 10 Pro) by adding 3 registry settings (original article). Note that the article talks about Office 2013, but it works fine for Office 2016.

1. Open Regedit and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Common\Cloud Storage

2. Right-click "Cloud Storage" to create a New>Key with a unique GUID (example uses: 0627ecb4-3ede-422a-8b23-954e7b6bed29) [you can get randomly generated keys online].

3. Right-click the new key you just created and then click Add>New>String to add each of the following three Strings directly under this key with the names DisplayName, LearnMoreURL and LocalFolderRoot. [you will need to go through this 3 times, once for each new String]

4. Assign each of the new Strings the values as follows [don't use the quotes]:

   • DisplayName -- "Dropbox"
   • LearnMoreURL -- "https://www.dropbox.com"
   • LocalFolderRoot -- "C:\{path}\Dropbox" {whatever your path is on your machine}

Under Windows 10, no need to reboot. When you choose "Open" or "Save" in Word, for example, then click "Add a Place" and Dropbox will appear as an option. Here's a dump of my export of that key:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Common\Cloud Storage]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Common\Cloud Storage\0627ecb4-3ede-422a-8b23-954e7b6bed29]
"DisplayName"="Dropbox"
"LearnMoreURL"="https://www.dropbox.com"
"LocalFolderRoot"="C:\\Dropbox"

Comments

[tabletguy]

There's another way to add Dropbox, Google Drive, and Sharepoint as cloud storage options. Open an Office product (Word, Excel, etc.). Click File menu (showing Save, Save As, etc). Click Account and sign into your Microsoft account. This will show Connected Services. You can "Add a Service" which includes both Dropbox and Google Drive. Tested in Office Plus 2013

[Deditos]

You should reproduce the code here rather than just providing a link that will likely go dead in the future.

[Finn]

this does not seem to work for me with Office 2016 and this article says that this doesnt work in general on Office 2016 anymore. Is this solution still viable or does something have changed?