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
    2020-04-30T14:37:04+00:00

    How do you permanently remove it and bring it back when you want to?  I need control over when it shows up.  Every time my mouse moves the thing shows up and takes some time to go away on its own.  So it takes up all the viewing space of the screen that is being shared with me.  Or can I move it somewhere else?

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-04-28T15:38:08+00:00

    Please; either add an option to hide or drag and minimize please or all 3. Very annoying and unproductive with screen shares and coding or ops work.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-04-28T15:26:17+00:00

    With so many people now using Teams for our meetings, I think it is imperative that Microsoft get the Teams team on this.  The real estate used up by the static participants coupled with the notifications bar persistence is making Teams less desirable vs Webex from Cisco for example.

    In my presentations where I am the organizer, I am now creating my presentation to put nothing of significance in the bottom of the slide deck.  Pretty shameful really for a top drawer tool to force the presentation to follow some arcane form because of a program defect.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-04-28T08:07:03+00:00

    The real hindrance here is that the control bar behavior is unpredictable and covers relevant information when people share their screen.

    This is grossly suboptimal. It MUST be forced to dock outside the content window.

    Please make use scenarios and test them .... this is best practice...

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