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

Anonymous
2019-08-13T20:02:08+00:00

Anyone know if there's a way to hide the default Teams meeting control task bar at the bottom of the screen so I can take screenshots of what is being shared/displayed on the without that in the way? Thanks.

Also, Teams isn't a "Category" option when I'm posting this. Nor is it listed in the "Office Topic" while "Skype" still is. Might want to update that since Teams has been released. As such, I'm having to post in "Unknown/Other".

Moved from Unknown/other  / Windows 10  / Unknown/other

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Anonymous
2019-08-14T00:02:23+00:00

Hi BenBo_2020,

Thanks for post your question in our forum, I have moved your thread to the correct category “Office 365 for admins  / Microsoft Teams  / Office 365 for business”, if you have any other questions when using Teams in the future, welcome to post a new thread in our forum.

Based on your description, you want to hiding the Teams control task bar (like below picture). I just tested this on my side, the task bar will auto hiding after you move your mouse outside of the sharing screen for a while. Could you please test this on your side to see if this works for you?

Hope above information helps. Please feel free to share the result with us or let me know if you need further suggestions, I'll happy to continue to help you.

Best regards,

Jennifer

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-04-03T09:23:00+00:00

    The control bar must die. I can think of no reason at all it has to be floating on top of the meeting space.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-04-03T08:00:00+00:00

    I think we all agree its a good system let down by poor execution and customer response.

    We also all know that MS know how we feel as its publicly posted on this site - which they will monitor.

    We also agree that's its high-school coding to fix it - its not difficult. Other systems don't have this problem.

    So we have to conclude that MS don't care about customer experience.

    We should note that they are not even responding to these posts.

    I think its now down to all of us to spread the word, and vote with our feet (well - keyboards).

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-04-03T07:49:13+00:00

    I almost began to like Teams until I found that it is impossible to get a rid of that huge taskbar. Now I hate Teams. It took just 5 minutes from Yes to Not in a Million Years. Typical MS totalitarianism that I already forgot excisted. Help!

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-04-02T21:26:44+00:00

    Add me to the list of thousands of users who find this absurdly annoying.  I've googled a solution for this at least once a month since our company made the terrible decision to use teams.  Good money says Microsquish rebrands Teams before they fix it.

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