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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  2. Anonymous
    2021-08-24T11:14:38+00:00

    fantastic tip with left click + right click.

    After doing first step then click CTRL+C and you can take screendumb of screen (then you can always make snippits of specific areas afterwards if needed)

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-07-30T13:44:05+00:00

    Thank you, DIV!

    -Juha

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-07-29T01:29:45+00:00

    I found the following trick to remove the Teams control bar:

    • click somewhere in Teams out of the control bar (this hides the control bar)
    • then right click at same place: this avoids the control bar to show again when I move the cursor

    Hope this helps

    Then I get a context menu, which also needs to be hidden.

    Left clicking to hide the context menu causes the control bar to be shown again!

    I found that pressing the Esc button on the keyboard to hide the context menu works OK.

    But then the control bar soon comes back again with some other mouse movements or whatever.

    BTW, the problem I am describing is when viewing TEAMS in a browser (Edge).

    —DIV

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