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Microsoft Loop: Start Guide, Features Review & Handy Tips

Learn about some effective ways to use Microsoft Loop

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Updated onOctober 6, 2023

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Microsoft has a host of collaborative apps and it expanded its portfolio with the Microsoft Loop app. It is anew app in Microsoft 365that helps take the collaboration game to the next level.

In this guide, we will share with you all the details that you need to know about how to use Microsoft Loop, including its features, and some handy tips. Let us get right into it.

What is Microsoft Loop?

Microsoft built the Microsoft Loop app with collaboration as its main focus. Using Microsoft Loop with different Microsoft 365 apps, users can enhance their communication and collaborative skills.

You can use Microsoft Loop to work together on MS Word or MS Excel documents, share notes in OneNote, and perform collaborative actions across Microsoft 365 apps. Microsoft Loop can also be used to assign or create new tasks for team members as well.

Microsoft Loop offers better collaboration, especially for users working on a small project. Teams can work together in real-time using this tool.

What are the different elements of Microsoft Loop?

Microsoft Loop consists of three elements: Loop components, Loop pages, and Loop workspace. Let us understand each of them, one by one.

1. Loop components

The Loop components in Microsoft Loop remain in sync across all the places they are shared. This means they are elements such as lists, tables, paragraphs, or even tasks that allow users or colleagues to work together within emails, chats, or documents.

Adding a component in an email or a document will store that data in the author’s OneDrive account. Microsoft Loop makes use of the .fluid file extension (which will later change to .loop) to store and share data.

Since Loop components are always synced and updated, you are working with the latest information in your preferred apps, without the need to switch between multiple apps.

2. Loop pages

Loop Pages is a whiteboard where you can bring all of your team, collaborate and share ideas. You can even share links, files, and data in real-time giving you a proper brainstorming place.

Anyone within the team can edit or manage the Loop pages and react to someone’s comment or add their comment. Loop pages can be adjusted according to the size of the project.

3. Loop workspaces

Loop workspaces is a place where your team can organize all the files, content, and data in one place for the particular project you are working on.

It can be used to share ideas and work on information. You can also share Loop components from the Loop pages and workspaces across Teams, Outlook, or even OneNote app.

How do I use Microsoft Loop?

Check out how to use Microsoft Loop below along with some handy tips that will give you an edge when using this collaborative tool.

1. Set Microsoft Loop for the first time

That way you can use the Microsoft Loop on your desktop using any web browser. However, you can also go ahead and download theAndroidoriOSmobile app (which is currently in beta) to use Microsoft Loop.

Read the next section to understand how to use Microsoft Loop to create and manage a workspace.

2. Create and manage workspace

3. Add icon and cover to your pages

4. Explore and use different templates

5. Insert components in a Loop page

7. Switch to the dark theme

8. Add comments and reactions

9. Create a Loop component

10. Add tables and use different column type

11. Create Microsoft Loop app shortcut

While Loop is available for the web only, you can install an app shortcut on your PC. On any browser, look for the app shortcut or install the app icon in the address bar and click on it. The Microsoft Loop app shortcut will get installed.

Overall, Microsoft Loop is a great collaborating tool, and with the above handy tips, you are all set to handle the tool with ease.

We have a guide that will explain to youhow you can download Microsoft Loop. Moreover, if you have doubts aboutMicrosoft Loop vs Notion, then we have a guide that explains all the differences between the two tools.

The guide will help you understand which one among Microsoft Loop and Notion is the best project management tool, and which one should opt for based on your needs.

That is it from us in this guide. Let us know in the comments below, if there are some other tips that you use in Microsoft Loop.

Microsoft Loop: Start Guide, Features Review & Handy Tips#

What are the different elements of Microsoft Loop?#

1. Loop components#

2. Loop pages#

3. Loop workspaces#

How do I use Microsoft Loop?#

1. Set Microsoft Loop for the first time#

2. Create and manage workspace#

3. Add icon and cover to your pages#

4. Explore and use different templates#

5. Insert components in a Loop page#

6. Sharing Loop pages with others#

7. Switch to the dark theme#

8. Add comments and reactions#

9. Create a Loop component#

10. Add tables and use different column type#

11. Create Microsoft Loop app shortcut#