New Microsoft Loop app is constructed for co-creation

Immediately is the beginning of the Microsoft Loop app journey and we’re thrilled to announce the Loop app is offered in public preview!

Paperwork have all the time been greater than only a technique of recording data—they’ve been a means for us to attach and collaborate, sharing our ideas, insights, and aspirations with others in order that we might obtain extra by constructing off one another slightly than working alone.

However the best way we work collectively has gone via important modifications over time. Now, in our present panorama, we encounter extra ambiguity and uncertainty than ever, requiring us to co-create in fast-paced and dynamic environments. We want instruments that embrace the messiness of our artistic course of and may adapt to our ever-evolving wants.

Microsoft Loop icon with blue and purple ombre background.

Microsoft Loop app

A transformative co-creation expertise that brings collectively groups, content material, and duties throughout your instruments and units.

That’s why we developed Microsoft Loop. At its core, Microsoft Loop is about folks—individuals who wish to create along with ease, regardless of the place they’re or what instruments they use. It’s a transformative co-creation expertise that brings collectively groups, content material, and duties throughout your instruments and units. We’ve beforehand shared the three key elements of Microsoft Loop: parts, workspaces, and pages. The brand new Loop app is the place you may entry all of those. Watch this video for a fast refresh and to take a look at among the newest improvements!

Now that you simply’re acquainted with Microsoft Loop, learn on to study extra in regards to the thrilling new capabilities you may leverage in Microsoft Loop to assume, plan, and create collectively like by no means earlier than.

Arrange the whole lot and everybody to your venture

With all of the instruments, paperwork, information, and hyperlinks that your workforce wants, it’s simple to really feel overwhelmed. Microsoft Loop helps you arrange the whole lot you want to your venture right into a single workspace and even does the looking for you to kick it off. Merely add a workspace title and another related key phrases, and Microsoft Loop will counsel probably the most related items so as to add to your workspace. Select which of them so as to add and create your workspace—content material can be organized into pages that you may simply view.

A visual of Loop jumpstarting a workspace by searching for content based on keywords.

One of many challenges of a venture is how rapidly it evolves. Microsoft Loop’s versatile workspaces allow you and your workforce to maintain tempo. Begin new pages simply with templates and drag and drop pages or blocks of content material to construction your workspace the best way that’s finest for you and your workforce.

Every thing you want is at your fingertips with the insert menu. Simply sort “/” so as to add a label, stay date, pictures, emojis, tables, checklists, and extra—all with out disturbing the circulation of your work. Or just sort “@” and select from instructed information and other people based mostly on the context of your writing. These easy instructions mean you can remark and react to one another’s work; constructing on concepts, resolving points, and making selections rapidly.

The insert menu enabling you to add a label, live date, images, emojis, tables, checklists and more.

When engaged on a dynamic venture, you usually must share items of knowledge with totally different teams of individuals, a few of which is probably not inside your speedy venture workforce. Microsoft Loop parts mean you can decompose data, sharing simply the appropriate elements with the appropriate folks. Flip any content material on a Loop web page right into a part, then merely copy and paste throughout M365 apps, together with Groups chat, Outlook, Whiteboard, and rolling out for Phrase for the online.

Turning content on a Loop page into a Loop component.

Share entire pages as nicely, both as a hyperlink or as a stay web page. Individuals can reply to you within the circulation of their work. For example, an individual who prefers electronic mail can add their enter to the Loop part or web page from their electronic mail. The modifications will replace throughout all of the locations the place the part or web page was shared.

As totally different parts of the venture progress, Microsoft Loop can assist hold everybody updated and centered on an important elements of the work.

Keep in sync and on observe with Microsoft Loop

Working with nice teammates is efficient and rewarding however with fast-moving tasks and workstreams, staying knowledgeable and maintaining observe of the whole lot can really feel like a herculean job. Microsoft Loop is right here to assist with options like progress trackers and customized labels that assist hold your workforce aligned on dynamic workstreams. Duties you assign within the Loop app and within the job checklist part sync throughout Microsoft Planner and To Do so that you all the time have the newest checklist of what it’s worthwhile to deal with. Feedback, nudges, reactions, and emojis make it easier to specific your self as you’re employed along with your workforce.

A table on a Loop page with labels and nudges.

Microsoft Loop helps you and your workforce not solely keep on prime of fast-moving tasks but in addition offers you with the management it’s worthwhile to really feel assured and comfy.

Keep in management with notifications from the Loop app

Notifications make it easier to handle your time and a focus within the circulation of labor—out of your desktop to on-the-go with cell. Within the Loop app, the notification feed retains observe of your mentions, assigned duties, and replies. It’s also possible to view notifications, making it simple to leap proper in and reply.

Notifications in the Loop app and in the Loop mobile app. Notifications include tasks assigned, at mentions, and replies.

With Microsoft Loop, you’re in management. While you create Loop parts, safety and permission settings apply identical to they do for Phrase, Excel, and PowerPoint. In Loop pages and parts, simply view who has entry to the web page or part and all of the locations it’s been shared. It’s also possible to discover what you’re in search of with search within the Loop app. Microsoft Loop is built-in with Microsoft 365, so you may even set a customized filter for Loop parts and pages to rapidly discover what you want.

Where you can view the locations a component has been shared and people it's been shared with.

Keep within the loop throughout units

Whether or not you’re shifting from the desk to the sofa or making an extended trek, the Microsoft Loop cell app was constructed with flexibility in thoughts. Shortly catch up by accessing your venture content material from one place in your telephone. Simply navigate between workspaces and pages with icons that present a visible information; seize concepts by merely snapping a photograph of one thing that evokes you and including it to your workspace; or proceed constructing on the concepts of others with out ready till you’re again at your laptop. With the Microsoft Loop cell app, you may proceed co-creating wherever you’re!

The Loop mobile app on two screens. The screen on the left shows workspaces. The screen on the right shows comments.

Unlock new prospects with Copilot in Loop

That is solely the start for Microsoft Loop. We’re excited to roll out new capabilities to repeatedly make it easier to co-create. Final week, we introduced Microsoft 365 Copilot—your copilot for work. Copilot combines the facility of next-generation AI along with your Microsoft 365 apps and information. Copilot in Loop provides you AI-powered solutions to assist rework the best way you create and collaborate. It guides you with prompts like create, brainstorm, blueprint, and describe. Or just sort in a immediate, like “assist me create a mission assertion.”

Like the remainder of Microsoft Loop, Copilot in Loop was constructed for co-creation. As you and your teammates work, any of you may return to earlier prompts, add language to refine the output, and edit the generated responses to get higher, customized outcomes. Then share your work as a Loop part to satisfy your teammates the place they’re, in Groups, Outlook, Whiteboard, or Phrase for the online. Copilot in Loop is at the moment in non-public preview.

Animated demonstration of Copilot in Loop providing prompts.

Copilot in Loop additionally helps when it’s worthwhile to perceive important data rapidly with summarization. Copilot helps everybody get to the purpose by summarizing the content material of a Loop web page and the content material of paperwork linked within the workspace. You may edit summaries so as to add extra element or context and ship them to others as Loop parts to maintain everybody in sync. Summarization capabilities in Loop will start rolling out within the subsequent few months.

Summary of a Loop page about planning an event.

Attempt Microsoft Loop right this moment

In public preview, the Loop app is offered right this moment! Go to Microsoft Loop to get began on the internet. To obtain the cell app, go to the Loop cell app for Android and Loop iOS app (the cell app is offered for work accounts right this moment and coming quickly for private accounts). For those who’re an IT admin, assessment the Settings administration for Loop app to allow Microsoft Loop to your group. On this public preview, we wish to hear from you to assist enhance your expertise. Ship us your suggestions within the app to assist us form the journey.

We’ve been working intently with clients in a personal preview in addition to studying from our personal groups. Try how Clipchamp has been utilizing Loop to create collectively throughout time zones and workstreams, serving to folks inform tales via video. Watch the video under and take a look at this text.

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Assume, plan, and create collectively like by no means earlier than with Microsoft Loop!