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Setting up alerts

Setting up alerts - SharePoint Tutorial

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Setting up alerts

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- [Instructor] Want to be notified when changes are made to a document? To get started, locate and hover over the document name. Select the ellipses to the right, that's the More options menu, and from here, select Alert me. The Alert me when items change window appears. The Alert title is pre-populated with the document library and document name. You can change this if you'd like. Next, let's add some names for any additional people that you'd like to send this to. As you start to type the name of the person, a pre-populated list will show matching names within your organization. Next is the delivery method. Email is selected, but you can also choose text message if you'd like to send that to you a mobile device. If you're selecting text message, you can also check mark Send a URL to send a link directly to this document. Next, let's decide what type of change will trigger the alert notification. We want to be notified when someone else changes a document, so we're going to go with…

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