Today is the beginning of the Microsoft Loop app journey and we’re thrilled to announce the Loop app is obtainable in public preview!
Documents have at all times been greater than only a technique of recording info—they’ve been a method 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 quite than working alone.
But the way in which we work collectively has gone by important adjustments 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 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 individuals—individuals who need to create along with ease, irrespective 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 previously shared the three key components of Microsoft Loop: elements, workspaces, and pages. The new Loop app is the place you’ll be able to entry all of those. Watch this video for a fast refresh and to take a look at among the newest improvements!
Now that you just’re acquainted with Microsoft Loop, learn on to be taught extra in regards to the thrilling new capabilities you’ll be able to leverage in Microsoft Loop to suppose, plan, and create collectively like by no means earlier than.
Organize the whole lot and everybody on your venture
With all of the instruments, paperwork, recordsdata, and hyperlinks that your staff wants, it’s straightforward to really feel overwhelmed. Microsoft Loop helps you manage the whole lot you want on your venture right into a single workspace and even does the looking for you to kick it off. Simply add a workspace title and some other related key phrases, and Microsoft Loop will counsel essentially the most related items so as to add to your workspace. Choose which of them so as to add and create your workspace—content material will probably be organized into pages you could simply view.
One of the challenges of a venture is how shortly it evolves. Microsoft Loop’s versatile workspaces allow you and your staff to maintain tempo. Start new pages simply with templates and drag and drop pages or blocks of content material to construction your workspace the way in which that’s greatest for you and your staff.
Everything you want is at your fingertips with the insert menu. Just sort “/” so as to add a label, dwell date, pictures, emojis, tables, checklists, and extra—all with out disturbing the move of your work. Or merely sort “@” and select from prompt recordsdata 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 shortly.
When engaged on a dynamic venture, you usually have to share items of knowledge with totally different teams of individuals, a few of which might not be inside your instant venture staff. Microsoft Loop elements mean you can decompose info, sharing simply the correct components with the correct individuals. Turn any content material on a Loop web page right into a element, then merely copy and paste throughout M365 apps, together with Teams chat, Outlook, Whiteboard, and rolling out for Word for the online.
Share entire pages as nicely, both as a hyperlink or as a dwell web page. People can reply to you within the move of their work. For occasion, an individual who prefers e-mail can add their enter to the Loop element or web page from their e-mail. The adjustments will replace throughout all of the locations the place the element or web page was shared.
As totally different parts of the venture progress, Microsoft Loop will help hold everybody updated and targeted on an important points of the work.
Stay 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 preserving observe of the whole lot can really feel like a herculean process. Microsoft Loop is right here to assist with options like progress trackers and customized labels that assist hold your staff aligned on dynamic workstreams. Tasks you assign within the Loop app and within the process checklist element sync throughout Microsoft Planner and To Do so that you at all times have the newest checklist of what it’s worthwhile to give attention to. Comments, nudges, reactions, and emojis enable you specific your self as you’re employed along with your staff.
Microsoft Loop helps you and your staff not solely keep on prime of fast-moving tasks but additionally gives you with the management it’s worthwhile to really feel assured and comfy.
Stay in management with notifications from the Loop app
Notifications enable you handle your time and a focus within the move of labor—out of your desktop to on-the-go with cellular. In the Loop app, the notification feed retains observe of your mentions, assigned duties, and replies. You also can view notifications, making it straightforward to leap proper in and reply.
With Microsoft Loop, you’re in management. When you create Loop elements, safety and permission settings apply similar to they do for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. In Loop pages and elements, simply view who has entry to the web page or element and all of the locations it’s been shared. You also can discover what you’re searching for with search within the Loop app. Microsoft Loop is built-in with Microsoft 365, so you’ll be able to even set a customized filter for Loop elements and pages to shortly discover what you want.
Stay within the loop throughout units
Whether you’re shifting from the desk to the sofa or making an extended trek, the Microsoft Loop cellular app was constructed with flexibility in thoughts. Quickly catch up by accessing your venture content material from one place in your cellphone. Easily navigate between workspaces and pages with icons that present a visible information; seize concepts by merely snapping a photograph of one thing that conjures up 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 cellular app, you’ll be able to proceed co-creating wherever you’re!
Unlock new prospects with Copilot in Loop
This is just the start for Microsoft Loop. We’re excited to roll out new capabilities to repeatedly enable you co-create. Last week, we introduced Microsoft 365 Copilot—your copilot for work. Copilot combines the ability of next-generation AI along with your Microsoft 365 apps and information. Copilot in Loop provides you AI-powered solutions to assist rework the way in which you create and collaborate. It guides you with prompts like create, brainstorm, blueprint, and describe. Or merely sort in a immediate, like “help me create a mission statement.”
Like the remainder of Microsoft Loop, Copilot in Loop was constructed for co-creation. As you and your teammates work, any of you’ll be able to return to earlier prompts, add language to refine the output, and edit the generated responses to get higher, personalised outcomes. Then share your work as a Loop element to satisfy your teammates the place they’re, in Teams, Outlook, Whiteboard, or Word for the online. Copilot in Loop is presently in non-public preview.
Copilot in Loop additionally helps when it’s worthwhile to perceive important info shortly 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 can edit summaries so as to add extra element or context and ship them to others as Loop elements to maintain everybody in sync. Summarization capabilities in Loop will start rolling out within the subsequent few months.
Try Microsoft Loop immediately
In public preview, the Loop app is obtainable immediately! Visit Microsoft Loop to get began on the net. To obtain the cellular app, go to the Loop cellular app for Android and Loop iOS app (the cellular app is obtainable for work accounts immediately and coming quickly for private accounts). If you’re an IT admin, overview the Settings administration for Loop app to allow Microsoft Loop on your group. In this public preview, we need to hear from you to assist enhance your expertise. Send us your suggestions within the app to assist us form the journey.
We’ve been working intently with prospects in a personal preview in addition to studying from our personal groups. Check out how Clipchamp has been utilizing Loop to create collectively throughout time zones and workstreams, serving to individuals inform tales by video. Watch the video beneath and try this text.
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Think, plan, and create collectively like by no means earlier than with Microsoft Loop!