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
    2020-06-10T06:55:32+00:00

    This is a major hinderance of using Teams.  We are using Teams all the time now for remote meetings and for sharing the screen for multiple hours every day.  Multiple times in every meeting, we are interrupted by someone saying that the Sharing / Control Toolbar is hiding / overlaying information that they need to see in the shared screen.  We must have a way to immediately hide the Control Toolbar - it is not sufficient to be told to click outside of the Teams window and wait for 5 seconds for it to disappear.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-06-10T04:17:18+00:00

    It's time for MS to correct this aberrant behaviour and add an option to configure hiding method and an option to control it's display

    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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  3. Anonymous
    2020-06-09T18:39:05+00:00

    Thanks Ron

    Works like a charm!

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-06-09T16:09:46+00:00

    "). 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?"

    That only works until you move the mouse again. As soon as the mouse is touched, the bar shows up right in the middle of the presentation blocking the view of the presentation.  This is very annoying and makes it hard to follow presentations in meetings when text is being blocked by an unneeded and oversize control panel. Is there no way to put this on one side of the screen, or at the base of the screen? Why does it have to pop up in the middle of the screen?

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