How to Set Up Notifications for Changes in Google Sheets

Google Sheets is a powerful tool for managing data.

It is more than just a spreadsheet application, it has many powerful features that can help you manage your day-to-day tasks more easily.

One of these features is to share your spreadsheet in Google Sheets with others and still see what changes they make.

While you can easily check the version history, there is already another option.

You can get real-time notifications on your email about each change made in the spreadsheet.

And in this article, you will learn how easy it is to set up such real-time notifications.

How to Set Up Notifications in Google Sheets

Enabling notifications for changes to Google Sheets is quite an easy process. Just follow these few steps to turn it on.

STEP 1: Open your spreadsheet and click on Tools.

STEP 2: Find the Notification rules from the menu and click on this option.

STEP 3: A new window appears with few options. Select the option that is best for you.

NOTE: You can choose to receive an email every time any change is made or when a user submits a form. You can also select how often you want to receive these emails. You can use real-time notifications or just a daily digest.

STEP 4: Click the Save button.

How to Add, Edit, and Remove Notifications

As you can see, setting up the notification rules is quite easy, but this is not the end. You can also add another rule, edit the current one or remove a notification completely.

ADD RULE: Click Add Another Notification Rule, and select what you want, and click the Save button.

EDIT RULE: To edit an existing rule, just click the Edit button next to it, make some changes, and click the Save button.

REMOVE RULE: To remove an existing rule, click on Delete and then confirm it by clicking on OK in the pop-up window.