Retirement of Loop Component Rendering in Word for the Web

Next up in the on-going list of Microsoft retirements… this one is a change to how Loop components are rendered in Word for the Web. Following is the Microsoft announcement…

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.

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.

Basically, this means that when it comes to Loop components in Word, both the desktop and web-based versions will work the same. You can still click on the Loop component to access it outside of Word, but you won’t be able to work with it interactively in Word for the Web after September 1st.