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
    2020-07-20T18:58:17+00:00

    I've noticed lately that when I'm sharing my display, this command bar shows up in the teams window in its normal place.  But, it used to show up off to the side (on a second screen in my case) so I could use it without disturbing the shared screen/presentation...I don't see an "undock" command or anything, how do I get it to go back to my second screen where it used to be?

    Maybe check the "Taskbar" settings  on the big Window  at the bottom ?

    On my display this is the taskbar where the time and date shows up  when not using TEAMs.

    Right click on a blank spot on this bar and  it opens up  a menu 

    At the bottom of this menu is  "  lock all taskbars "   and" Taskbar settings:"

     - "  lock all taskbars " can be "checked" or "unchecked" 

    - " Taskbar settings:" opens a whole  new page with lots of options that may - or may not - affect the TEAMS taskbar problem

    It may be that recent  WIndows Updates alter  some of thesesettings so what once worked  now dosent

    Thanks - I'm familiar with those, but mine was unchecked and nothing else seemed to affect it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-07-20T18:13:16+00:00

    I've noticed lately that when I'm sharing my display, this command bar shows up in the teams window in its normal place.  But, it used to show up off to the side (on a second screen in my case) so I could use it without disturbing the shared screen/presentation...I don't see an "undock" command or anything, how do I get it to go back to my second screen where it used to be?

    Maybe check the "Taskbar" settings  on the big Window  at the bottom ?

    On my display this is the taskbar where the time and date shows up  when not using TEAMs.

    Right click on a blank spot on this bar and  it opens up  a menu 

    At the bottom of this menu is  "  lock all taskbars "   and" Taskbar settings:"

     - "  lock all taskbars " can be "checked" or "unchecked" 

    - " Taskbar settings:" opens a whole  new page with lots of options that may - or may not - affect the TEAMS taskbar problem

    It may be that recent  WIndows Updates alter  some of thesesettings so what once worked  now dosent

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-07-20T17:40:27+00:00

    I've noticed lately that when I'm sharing my display, this command bar shows up in the teams window in its normal place.  But, it used to show up off to the side (on a second screen in my case) so I could use it without disturbing the shared screen/presentation...I don't see an "undock" command or anything, how do I get it to go back to my second screen where it used to be?

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-07-18T19:06:50+00:00

    Nope, that will capture the screen including the controls bar, which obscures part of the Teams session. So that doesn’t help.

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