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
    2020-04-21T14:18:35+00:00

    I work at a software organization and we are scattered around the globe so teams is now an integral part of our day.  The largest issue, because we often need to see the last line in a terminal window, is that the bar covers the most important line that we need to see.

    This becomes a very large problem when we are in a large call debugging production issues and all the operations are done via terminal.  The inability to see the output or even the next input line is beyond frustrating -- it's what makes us sometime switch back to using Webex.

    Please please add a hide the control task bar feature.

    I have the same issue and frustration. the task bar does not go away. This thread is nearly a year old. is this ever going to be fixed or should we start looking for some other tool for screen sharing?

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-04-21T11:18:53+00:00

    I work at a software organization and we are scattered around the globe so teams is now an integral part of our day.  The largest issue, because we often need to see the last line in a terminal window, is that the bar covers the most important line that we need to see.

    This becomes a very large problem when we are in a large call debugging production issues and all the operations are done via terminal.  The inability to see the output or even the next input line is beyond frustrating -- it's what makes us sometime switch back to using Webex.

    Please please add a hide the control task bar feature.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-04-20T15:22:33+00:00

    Please add this ... screen clipping is a nightmare with the bar.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-04-20T12:27:26+00:00

    The problem is actually very very annoying.

    I noticed that this question collected 21640 views and 115 replies (which is quite a lot and should highlight the importance). I noticed also that it's marked with a green tick: hopefully this doesn't mean that for MSFT it's solved.

    An answer, just to inform your customers and users, that you are working on it, would be appreciated

    thanks

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