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How to disable email notifications for comments left on own Word document stored in OneDrive

Sydney 240 Reputation points
2025-11-16T05:45:05.87+00:00

I am a frequent user of Word and OneDrive. As of 11/15/25 around 8pm CST, I began receiving email notifications that for my own comments in Word docs that I have stored in my OneDrive. (NOTE: By Word comments I mean right-click on text in an open document > New Comment... type and publish comment, then get an email notification a couple minutes later). This happened first in a downloaded document from work for which I wasn't the author, but I tested it with several created documents that I am definitely listed as author for. These emails are primarily being sent as "Notes to Self" from my email to my email, but one notification came from SharePoint Online, which I don't use. I haven't changed any settings in Word or OneDrive that would cause this change in behavior, and I shouldn't be getting notifications on my own changes anyway. I have googled and found loosely related? historical threads but going into Settings in OneDrive (web and Windows) no longer shows any settings related to email notifications. Also, there were never any notification settings that I've ever seen or remember about getting notified over my own comments in my own document in my own OneDrive so I'm a bit confused...

The only thing I can rationalize is that OneDrive no longer recognizes me as the document owner so it's notifying me of my own changes? Going down this path I've tried: 1. rebooting, 2. unlinking and relinking OneDrive but neither has worked.

Any other ideas?

Update: I tried to locate the "central switch" at office.com per Kai-H but was redirected to Copilot and could only find Copilot-related settings. Disabling notifications per document is untenable. I don't use the @ mention at all in my comments. LT's option to disable "modern comments" in Word potentially limits functionality that I use to speed productivity, and it'd be ridiculous to have to create email rules to auto-junk Notes to Self and SharePoint notifs. Looking for better fixes. Is this a bug? Or a new "feature"?

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  1. Emmeline 0 Reputation points
    2025-12-12T18:26:28.3633333+00:00

    I'm going crazy with all this messages, working on my laptop on my own document that is not shared with anyone. I've disabled some settings, but can't access a sharepoint settings menu, and my OneDrive notifications settings menu does not give me the options I need to disable these email notifications. Hoping to receive an email from Microsoft explaining why this has started and how to make it stop.

  2. Rick W 0 Reputation points
    2025-12-14T16:59:22.6333333+00:00

    these email notifications are horsesh!t. Who TF at Microsoft comes up with this crap...some intern?

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