Allow reviewers to control when comment notifications are sent
it used to be that you would get an email if someone left a comment in a document with the @ sign and your name. Now it emails people all the time regardless of the @ symbol or not. I want to limit how often someone gets pinged and now it seems like I can't control it. Can we go back to the old way?
There is a way for recipients to suppress emails, but that is not helpful.
If this is the new behavior, please allow reviewers to decide when a notification gets sent to a recipient. Otherwise the recipient is spammed with too many notifications that all look the same.
See this post on Community: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msofficeoutlook-msowin10-mso_o365b/microsoft-word-comment-notifications/97af7756-c099-4fff-9f4e-3372bfaa591b

2 comments
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Ed D commented
This is very annoying. As a reviewer I don't want all my draft comments sent until I have finished my reviews.
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Anonymous commented
I too posted this idea elsewhere. This truly is a bug. Can't tease out the urgent vs. the mundane comments. PLEASE shut it DOWN. It was EXCELLENT before when commenter had option for notice by adding the @. WHY would this be changed?