How to use Microsoft Loop in Outlook and Teams
Microsoft has been developing an ambitious collaboration app for its Microsoft 365 platform. Called Microsoft Loop, the tool includes shared workspaces as well as portable content snippets called Loop components that can be shared and embedded in multiple Microsoft 365 apps.
What makes Loop so useful is that those shared components can be updated by multiple collaborators, and they stay in sync no matter where they’re embedded. One person could edit a component in an Outlook email, while another edits it in a Teams chat, and the latest changes appear in both places.
Microsoft recently released the Loop app in public preview. We’ll be exploring that app in another story soon, but you don’t need to use the app to get started using Loop components. That’s because Microsoft has been integrating Loop components into some Microsoft 365 apps, primarily Outlook and Teams, for some time now — so you can create, share, and work on them in Microsoft 365 apps you’re already familiar with.