Hiding Teams Control Task Bar (at Bottom of Teams Screen) During a Meeting (So Screenshot of Shared Screen is Clean)

Hi Jennifer,

No matter what tool I use the control/task bar keeps popping up from time to time and I have to click off the Teams window each time to get it to go away again. The Snipping Tool works to a degree for a couple screenshots here or there, but not for the hundreds we need to take. I need to be able to take screenshots faster than that. Plus, the Snipping Tool doesn't have all the features I need. We simply need a function that hides that bar through the duration of a call. Thanks for your help but we'll probably have to use a different product other than Teams for our client conference calls.

Regards,

Ben

Thanks Jennifer for placing this question in the Office365 forum category and for your response. You are correct regarding what I'm trying to achieve, and we've also noticed that the task bar disappears when the mouse is moved outside the sharing screen. However, when using a 3rd party screenshot application (or even the native Alt+PrntScrn function), one must move the mouse back onto the screen/window of choice before clicking/selecting to capture the screenshot. When that happens, the task bar reappears.

What I'm looking for is some kind of settings/manual override to get that task bar to go away regardless of where the mouse is located (e.g. right click on that task bar and select "Hide Meeting Task Bar" or similar). I can't even select the screen and use the embedded Windows Alt+PrntScrn function without the task bar continuing to pop up. I can use the full PrntScrn function (without the Alt key) when the mouse is elsewhere, but that captures everything on both my 2 monitors, when all I want to capture is what is being shared in Teams.

From an audit or evidentiary perspective when capturing screenshots, there should be nothing blocking or hiding what is on the other party's shared screen. When something is in the way, it can give the illusion that something is missing from the screenshot, when the item in question is actually behind the unwanted/unneeded task bar. In addition, other meeting utilities (I won't list them here but they are common ones that many large organizations use or have used before going to Teams now) have settings to manually override task bar type buttons from constantly appearing, but I'm still not seeing anything similar in Teams. Thanks.

Regards,

Ben

I have the same issues as Ben and Jonathan have illustrated. All other meeting presentation tools have the ability to hide, dock or lock the toolbar. The inability to purposefully do this on Teams puts this tool behind every other viable option, such as WebEx or Zoom. MSFT would do well to prioritize this update, 

Thank you, 

Gretchen

Hi Jennifer,

The behavior of the task bar is a significant hinderance during meetings. It sometimes goes away after some long period of time and often does not go away at all. And it consumes a lot of real estate, as do the boxes that appear on screen to represent participants. This needs to be under the user's control, not the developer's control. The user needs to be able to move it and size it, at will, depending upon their needs at the time. That is what makes for a good user experience. I should be able to minimize or eliminate these controls at will from the view and have some mechanism of bringing them back, sizing and locating them when needed. One method, as example, is to minimize to a small graphic handle that can be placed anywhere on the screen. 

I look forward to that upgrade.

Thanks

Jonathan