Forum Discussion
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...
This post was a while ago, but I found myself with the same issue today (2023). We use SharePoint and this is how I've managed to solve it incase others need help with this too:
- Log on to your SharePoint online account (you will need to have Admin access rights or get someone with admin access rights to do it for you)
- Click on the SharePoint logo top left to get to the Start Page:
- Click on Settings widget top right and select 'Email notification settings':
- Deselect the notifications you don't want. This will then apply to all users in the organisation using your sharepoint files.
The other place to turn off notification is on the email notification itself. Scroll to the bottom of the email. If you just want to stop notification for that file, toggle it off. If you want to stop it for all files, click 'Notification Settings' which will open the notifications specifically related to the email address receiving the notifications. Toggle applicable ones to off. See screenshots below:
