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".

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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
    2019-11-08T10:27:08+00:00

    this is infuriating! please fix!

    Jennier,

    I concur with the others. The share tool bar is annoying when it's in the conference window view. It doesn't auto-hide and often obscures important information. It needs to have a button on the side to make it go away. Please fix.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-08-24T10:13:47+00:00

    Hi Ben,

    Thanks for your reply, regarding your concerns to capture hundreds screenshoots during a team meeting, we‘d like to recommend you may try to record a team meeting to capture audio, video and screen sharing activity, after that, you play and share a meeting recording with your team members. For your reference: 

    Moreover, as there is no option to disable the control bar in a Team meeting, to improve our products and provide a better user experiencing to you, we will be very grateful if you could send your feedback to our product team in the UserVoice forum. Our related team is monitoring users feedback actively, thanks for your time and understanding.

    Best regards,

    Jennifer

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-08-17T09:28:38+00:00

    Hi Ben,  

    Have you tried to use the Snipping Tool to see if it helps?

    Regards,

    Jennifer

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-08-16T10:40:46+00:00

    Hi Ben,

    Thanks for your reply, based on my experiencing, there is no an option to disable the control bar during screen sharing in Teams.

    Regarding your question to capture a screenshoot, I just tested this on my side, I can use the Windows default tool “Snipping Tool” to capture the shared screen without the control bar. Please kindly type “Snipping Tool” in the Windows search box to open the tool and then you can keep the tool on the top of the sharing screen and move your mouse to the tool, when doing so, then control bar is still hiding and you can click “New” to get the screenshoot.

    Hope it helps, please feel free to let me know if there is anything unclear, it's always my pleasure to help you.

    Best regards,

    Jennifer

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