You can now receive email notifications whenever changes are made to a document that either you have shared or others have shared with you.
Turning on email notifications
When working on a collaborative document, collaborators are likely to make changes or add comments to it regularly. But what's tiresome is having to check the document frequently to see if any changes have been made. You can choose to receive email notifications to keep a track of all the changes made to your documents. This feature enables automatic notifications sent to your email, so you're always up-to-date on any changes made to the document.
To enable notifications, do the following:
1. Click on the drop down arrow next to the Share tab and select Email Notification Settings.
2. A number of notifications options will be shown. The first option allows you to receive notifications to all the changes made to the document.
3. Or you can choose to receive notifications only for specific changes made to the document as shown below.
4. After you've selected the option of your choice, click on OK. You will now receive notifications automatically based on the options you have selected.
Note: You will not be sent notifications about your own changes. You will only receive notifications when your collaborators make changes to the document.
Turning off email notifications
Frequent changes made to a document will send you continuous notifications, which can be distracting especially when you're trying to focus on getting some work done. In such cases you can turn off these notifications.
To turn off notifications, do the following:
1. Click on the drop down arrow next to the Share tab and select Email Notification Settings.
2. A number of notifications options will be shown. Check the last option which says "Don't send me any email notifications for this document". Click on OK. You will now stop receiving email notifications whenever changes are made to the document.
Note: You can also set your chosen option as default for all new documents by checking the Set as default for all new documents option.