Make and share Loop components - Microsoft Loop Tutorial

- Let's start by introducing loop components. These are used for sharing pieces of information with your teammates and components can be edited, shared, and reshared even after the original component has been sent. Now there's an important detail here. You can make and share loop components inside of several different office applications. In this video, we need to choose one, so we'll start with Outlook, but later, we will see how this works in other applications. Here in Outlook, I am composing a new email message. To add a loop component to an email, you should click to place your cursor in the body of the message. Then make sure the message ribbon is selected at the top and we see this button for loop components. This is here if you use Outlook in the web browser. At the time of this recording, it is not available in some versions of the desktop application, though it may be added in the future. In this menu, you'll need to choose which type of component you want. Different types of components can hold different types of information. You can insert a paragraph of text or a list or a table. I'll make a table. We should put a name in the title field, so I'll name it Loan Interest Rates, and in the case of a table, you can rename the column headers. I'll label one column as Loan Amount and one column for January. Then I'll fill in some information. Now that I've made the component and added the information I want, I can send the email. Now, one great thing about loop components is that the people who receive the email can make changes in the component even after it's been sent. Since I sent that email to Kim, let's look at Kim's computer. We can see the loop component in the email message that Kim received, and we could do something that you would never be able to do with a normal email. Kim can make changes. And she could even add a new column and fill it with more information. She made changes to that content after the email was sent. If the component is shared with somebody, they will be able to edit it at any time. And if I go back to my own computer, I can go to my sent mail folder and I can find that email that I sent with the component and I can see the changes that Kim made. I see the column that she added and the information that she changed, and I can make my own changes. I'll change some of these values. So that's the general idea of how a loop component works. These are not duplicates of a component. We both see a live connection to the same shared component, which either of us can edit at any time.