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Switching off comment notifications in word documents
Hi - is it possible to turn off email notifications for replies to comments in a word document? We seem to get a notification about new comments every time the document is saved, and as Word autosave...
I think what you want is to turn off the email notifications in OneDrive.
- From the gear in you OneDrive account (online) select OneDrive Settings
- The Notifications Settings open - all are on by default. Slide the toggle to off for "Email notifications when other reply to your comments"
I have had my users (who collaborate and use comments in Word docs) do this and have not heard from them if that was the solution to stop the notification emails but it seems like it would be.
Smiles, Kory
This unfortunately, for whatever reason, did not work for my team.
- Hello, we have not yet enabled OneDrive in our org so cannot try the suggested solution above. Does anybody know if there is another way to stop these email notifications? Thanks
Check with your tenant admin, there should be settings in the O365 service that could turn this off for the whole tenant. A group policy could be applied as well.
This is changing...again...https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/using-modern-comments-in-word-edc6ae71-0a2d-49fe-8faa-986f1e48136a?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=USGreat, thanks for that tip Kory Hirak!
