About email notifications:
According to the text, "Notification emails let your collaborators know there’s been new activity in the comment thread, gives them a preview of the document content where the comment was made, as well as the comment you left. They can reply to your comment from the email, or they can click a link in the notification email to open the document and go straight to the comment if they want to see more context." Mostly false, afaict. Yes, the email lets the @collaborator know there's been activity, BUT:
- There's no preview in the email of the doc content near the comment.
- The comment itself is *not* included in the email.
- The recipient CANNOT reply to the email, because it is sent from a "no-reply" address at sharepoint.us (I had given this as the actual email address, but techcommunity replaced that with some privacy text).
- Even if the recipient could reply to the email (or if there were a link for email replies), this wouldn't work because the recipient has no idea from their email what the comment was. So they could reply "thanks!" or s.t., but not anything meaningful.
- The link in the email labeled "Go to comment" takes you to the top of the file, NOT to the comment.
- In theory, the recipient could open the doc and search for their name in some comment. But that doesn't work either, since the content of comments is not afaict searchable.
We're editing Word docs that are stored on Teams. It's possible that some of (1)--(5) (but not 6) works if the doc is stored somewhere else, I don't know.
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