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Export Loop tables to Excel in Loop

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Aug 25, 2024

(Originally published on November 22, 2023 by Srishti Talwar)

 

Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! My name is Srishti Talwar, and I’m a Product Manager on the Loop team. I’m excited to announce that, based on your feedback, you can now export Loop tables to Excel!

 

Export Loop tables to Excel in Loop

 

When you're collaborating as a team on a project, you may choose to add Loop tables to gather data and perform calculations. You can now export the tables to applications such as Excel so you can leverage its capabilities to perform any needed calculations.

 

To ensure compatibility, Loop’s table data type is mapped to the most relevant format in Excel.

 

How it works

  1. In your favorite browser, go to loop.microsoft.com, and then open an existing table or create one and add relevant information to your project.

    Insert table in Loop

     

  2. Select the six-dot menu on the table and select Export to Excel.

    Export to Excel command

    After a few moments, the Excel worksheet is created in your OneDrive and in SharePoint.

 

Requirements

To use this feature, you’ll need:

  • An active Microsoft 365 subscription.
  • A Microsoft 365 commercial license – E3 or E5.

 

Availability

This feature is available to all Microsoft 365 subscribers at https://loop.microsoft.com.

 

Feedback

We’d love to hear from you! Please click the question mark button in the bottom right corner of the app window and click, Give Feedback.

Give feedback window

Please include #ExportToExcel in your comments so that we can easily find your input about the feature.

 

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Updated Aug 25, 2024
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4 Comments

  • NR_Gibbons's avatar
    NR_Gibbons
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 11, 2025

    Exporting a table is a start, but while Microsoft Loop offers strong real-time collaboration, its lack of native backup, bulk workspace export and link-preserving archive capability makes it unsuitable for enterprise-grade knowledge management or business-critical documentation. Organisations cannot reliably safeguard content, perform e-discovery in a structured form, migrate workspaces at scale or maintain internal link integrity when exporting, creating material risk around continuity, compliance, vendor lock-in and intellectual property portability. Without guaranteed data resilience, auditable exports and automation-friendly migration paths, Loop remains appropriate for casual collaboration but not for enterprise systems of record or operationally critical knowledge repositories. A pity as it has so much potential, but WHY produce something so half baked from a data lifecycle management perspective?? For now this should come with a health warning that it is a data jail for any meaningful volume of content.

  • michealplanck's avatar
    michealplanck
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 21, 2025

    I want to go the other way. I want to display the contents of an Excel table in Loop, so people can read it without opening a separate file (it would be even nicer if they could edit it, but one thing at a time).

    Confluence can display an Excel file. Admittedly, it does it very badly; but the idea that Confluence can display a Microsoft Excel file and Microsoft Loop cannot is absurd. Are we doing sketch comedy here?

  • TheresaCase's avatar
    TheresaCase
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 18, 2024

    #ExportToExcel

    This addition is (almost) very helpful to me, I am losing text formatting though when it exports. I use strike through on some table inputs and when exporting this it is lost.  Is there a work around? Thanks