Hiding Teams Control Task Bar (at Bottom of Teams Screen) During a Meeting (So Screenshot of Shared Screen is Clean)

Hi Jennifer, agree with Gretchen, Ben and Jonathan.

The control bar is hiding slides when someone is presenting, and it's a real hassle to get rid of it, to see the presentations in full.

Is there any plan for users to be able to move the control bar to (and out from) the toolbar? See for example Adobe Acrobat reader's solution.

Best regards,

Karl Friberg

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

Hi everyone,

For me, your answer didn't answer the question. When someone is sharing the screen, it keeps popping up. When viewing incoming video from multiple participants it covers their name.

Can MS Teams allow us to move the toolbar to anywhere, including on a different monitor, just like Cisco WebEx provides?

-Thank you for your assistance.

-Carl

Durham, NC

USA

To get MSFT to consider a change to allow users to manually move or hide the tool bar you need to go to these links (Microsoft Teams UserVoice Forum) and vote for them:

https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/38271673-reposition-the-control-bar

https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/40018222-hide-or-move-the-meeting-toolbar-during-a-teams-me  

It seems this is the wrong thread to affect change, despite hundreds of replies and over fifty thousand views.

I created a new thread to expose this issue correctly and received the following response:

ISSUE

"Manually Hide Teams Tool Bar during Presentations, or move it out of the way"

RESPONSE:

Hello LaGrMe

Thanks for your post in Microsoft community. Generally in Teams meeting, once we click outside of the Teams meeting screen bar, Teams tool bar is hiding automatically and once we move mouse, it re-appears again. We do understand your requirement and found that currently few have voted for this feature via our Teams UserVoice service: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/40018222-hide-or-move-the-meeting-toolbar-during-a-teams-me . We recommend you to give your valuable vote and also submit your suggestion on the above Uservoice link. Depends on the high customer demand, development team will check the suggestion and may consider to develop it, your voice is helpful for better using our experience. We would think highly of each customer’s feedback on our product and we appreciate for your precious suggestion on how we could improve our products.

Many thanks for kind understanding co-operation. 

END RESPONSE

So if you are one of the 50,000 who have viewed this post looking for an answer, click on the link above and let them know you want to see change!

Good Luck.