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
    2020-04-08T04:48:39+00:00

    I agree. It needs to have a button on the side to make it go away. Please fix. It is annoying and deterring adoption of using teams.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-04-07T17:07:06+00:00

    I am using the Microsoft Snip and Sketch tool that replaced the original snip tool and even if you hover outside to let the black bar disappear as soon and you activate a new snip the black control bar reappears and is in every single one of my snips.  A real solution to this needs to be put in place.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-04-07T12:07:18+00:00

    I use OneNote to capture screenshots (windows key + shift + s) and when I click this combination the control task bar appears again, ruining my screenshot.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-04-06T14:09:05+00:00

    An interesting position by Microsoft.

    As we move towards a post Covid-19 world, where the power of interactive conferencing has now been proven beyond all reasonable doubt, more organisations will make it the norm; MS are ignoring requests to improve this tool, and choosing to make it suboptimal.

    Seems like business suicide to me.

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