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Switching off comment notifications in word documents
MS tell us here
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-mention-in-comments-to-tag-someone-for-feedback-644bf689-31a0-4977-a4fb-afe01820c1fd?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us
That when you get the email notifying of a comment in a file, you can turn off further email notifications for that one file from within the email. See the "How to turn off notifications in Outlook" heading at the bottom of the page.
In my testing emails that came to me after someone @mentioned my name in a comment DID not contain the slider to turn off notifications, microsoft mention in the link above.
BUT
in an older email (May 2020) sent because I was @mentioned in a comment , there was a link that redirected to
https:// mytenant-my.sharepoint.com/personal/firstname_lastname_mytenant.com/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?p=22
Which is also mentioned on the Microsoft link above.
This suggests that Microsoft expect that OneDrive settings to control ALL comment notifications either from documents held in OneDrive or held in SharePoint online.
It looks like the implementation isn't complete or relies on other tenant wide settings.
Does anyone have a good understanding of this they could share ?
The emails sent by Word or Powerpoint online when comments are made to documents held in SharePoint online sites linked to Teams have 2 different formats in my case:
- Subject line : UserName replied to a comment in "DocumentTitle"
- this email has the following footer
Why am I receiving this notification from Office?
Microsoft logoPrivacy Statement | Notification Settings
- The "Notifications settings" link takes the user to https:// mytenant-my.sharepoint.com/personal/recipientfirstname_recipientlastname_mytenant_com/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?p=22
- this email has the following footer
- Subject line : UserName replied to a comment in "DocumentTitle".
- this email has the following footer
Why am I receiving this notification from Office? - Which links to
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/why-am-i-receiving-email-notifications-from-office-3b68030d-9e75-4122-984c-3b966b898049?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us
- this email has the following footer
When I change my OneDrive settings here
https:// mytenant-my.sharepoint.com/personal/recipientfirstname_recipientlastname_mytenant_com/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?p=22
- Email notification when others reply to your comments
- to off
- I no longer get the Subject line : UserName replied to a comment in "DocumentTitle" emails
- to off
- Email notification when others comment on my documents
- I can't get this to do anything ? on or off.
