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How to Turn on Notifications in Google Sheets

In Google Sheets, you can set up notifications that will email you whenever a spreadsheet is changed.

Setting up these kinds of alerts is useful when you want to stay up to date whenever your sheet is edited.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to set up email notifications in Google Sheets

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Turning On Notifications

Setting up an email trigger that will notify you when a shared spreadsheet is updated is very useful when you want to stay on top of changes made in a particular sheet.

Here are the steps to do this:

1. In the top menu select Tools>Notification rules

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2.  You will see a popup where you can set the notification rules. You can set it to notify you when any changes are made. It will send emails either right away, or once a day with all the changes that are made depending on what you select here. Click Save when you are finished

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3. You should now see an email similar to the one below whenever your spreadsheet is edited

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Editing Notification Rules

You can also edit existing notification rules by again selecting Tools>Notification rules

From here you will find options to either:

  • Edit the existing rules
  • Delete the existing rules
  • Add another notification rule

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Closing Thoughts

When you have a shared Google Sheet and you want to track the changes, setting up notifications is a great way to accomplish this.

You can be emailed instantly whenever a change is made to your file, which is useful when you have multiple users who may edit a sheet and you need to stay up to date with changes.

More Google Sheets Tutorials:
How to Change Edit Access
How to Transfer Ownership of a Sheet