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
    2020-06-19T23:45:24+00:00

    with the method described above, for me, the Control Task Bar only disappears for a few seconds.  How do we move it (or hide it) so it won't re-appear 15 seconds later?

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-06-18T14:47:56+00:00

    This no longer works when you have chat pop outs open even if i move them to another screen.  the toolbar never goes away.

    Coding change needed her please to fix that

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-06-18T13:51:07+00:00

    Please allow to have the bar to be moved / hidden explicitly, it blocks a lot of the presentation if you try to access something on teams at the same time.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-06-18T08:16:05+00:00

    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 both of 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  

    There is a blue voting button in the top left hand corner. It's important you click on it as comments are not counted.

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

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