Microsoft Loop is the collaboration tool already included in your Microsoft 365 subscription that most businesses have never opened. It combines the ease of Notion with the integration of Teams and Outlook. What does it do and when is it worth using?
Many businesses pay monthly for Microsoft 365 and use a handful of the available tools. Word, Excel, Teams, maybe SharePoint. But there is a tool in that subscription that can fundamentally change how teams collaborate, and almost nobody knows about it: Microsoft Loop.
Loop is available at loop.microsoft.com and as part of Teams and Outlook. It is Microsoft's answer to tools like Notion, Coda and Confluence, but fully integrated into the Microsoft 365 environment you already use.
Loop is a collaborative workspace platform built around three concepts: Workspaces, Pages and Components. A Workspace is a shared space for a team or project. Pages are documents within that workspace. Components are the power of Loop: reusable blocks like tables, lists and action items that you can embed in Teams messages, Outlook emails and other Loop pages.
That last point is what makes Loop unique. If you create a table in Loop and embed it in a Teams channel, all participants see the same live table. Someone updates a row in Teams, and the change is immediately visible in the original Loop page. No synchronisation needed, no copying and pasting, no outdated versions.
Teams is primarily a communication tool for chat, meetings and channels. SharePoint is a document management system and intranet platform. Loop sits between them: it is designed for actively collaborating on content, not for storing or communicating it.
Loop works best for teams that regularly collaborate on documents, manage projects or prioritise knowledge sharing. Think marketing, project management, product teams and HR. For smaller organisations, Loop is a serious alternative to Notion or Confluence, with the major advantage that no separate tool needs to be purchased or managed. Loop is already included in Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Standard and Premium.
Loop is enabled by default for Microsoft 365 tenants. Users can go directly to loop.microsoft.com and log in with their Microsoft 365 account. As an IT administrator, you can manage Loop availability via the Microsoft 365 Admin Center under Settings, then Org settings, then Loop.
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