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
    2020-02-18T17:24:46+00:00

    Still no update I guess.  Who at Microsoft thought this was a good idea?  Obviously have no clue how business people use these tools.  Yet another case of throwing hours of development without understanding basic usage and requirements.

    Also trying to figure out how to use dial in only and not turn on PC microphone is ambiguous and confusing.  Definitely not intuitive but I figured it out.  Skype wasn't great, but the interface was so simple.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-02-15T18:29:33+00:00

    MSFT any update on this?  Seems like it'd be an easy fix to either provide option to hide the bar, or to be able to move the bar off screen.  Everyone who uses MS Teams complains about this bar, I hear it on every big MS Teams meeting I'm on.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-02-13T20:48:15+00:00

    Come on Microsoft - this is SO annoying. Sometimes it goes away after a minute or so; other times it stays up there - it is up right now while I am on a different window typing this in - and has been up for 10 minutes even though my cursor is not in Teams.

    Wanting to replace Skype with Teams meetings - then give it the same capabilities!

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-02-11T16:30:34+00:00

    6 months since original question now,

    any updates Microsoft?

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