# Can I do this in Excel? If not, some other way?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 9, 2014, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-do-this-in-excel-if-not-some-other-way/695143 "2014-08-09T03:17:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-do-this-in-excel-if-not-some-other-way/695143/1 "2014-08-09T03:17:46Z")

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I have a spreadsheet with one column having people’s email addresses, and another column having–somehow–_files_ in it. (Or links to them, or some other association with files). I would like to send each row’s file to that row’s email address. I can send out emails to each email address using mail merge in Word, I know that. Is there a way I can get that file attached to that email somehow?

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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-do-this-in-excel-if-not-some-other-way/695143/2 "2014-08-09T03:19:06Z")

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Ah it just came to me.

I could use share links (like dropbox links) in the “file” column.