Retirement of Loop Component Rendering in Word for the Web
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Summary
Support for rendering Loop components in Word for the web will be retired on September 1, 2025. Existing Loop components will display as read-only placeholders with links to open them externally. Organizations should notify users, update documentation, and encourage accessing Loop components via external links. No admin action is required.
Details
We’re retiring support for rendering Loop components in Word for the web, effective September 1, 2025.
This change aligns the Word web experience with Word desktop, where Loop components are already displayed as read-only placeholders.
When this will happen:
This change will roll out automatically and take effect on September 1, 2025.
How this affects your organization:
Loop component creation in Word for the web was previously deprecated. With this update, existing Loop components will no longer render interactively in Word web documents. Instead, users will see a read-only placeholder with a link to open the Loop component externally.
This ensures continued access to content without data loss but removes in-document interactivity.
Our reporting indicates that your organization may have users who open Word web documents containing Loop components. No admin action is required, but this change may impact user workflows.
What you can do to prepare:
- Notify your users about the upcoming change and the new placeholder experience.
- Update internal documentation to reflect the change in behavior.
- Encourage users to access Loop components via the provided external link if interactivity is needed.