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
    2019-11-13T17:54:43+00:00

    Same issue, not just for capturing screen shots... but often the controls bar blocks out part of the screen that has important content the presenter is trying to share.  Every other web conference tool I can think of allows user to move the controls out of the way.  Many of them let you move the controls to a different monitor all together (when setup with multiple monitors).  Teams needs the same, or at least some choice of how big and where on the screen it is positioned, or some way to dock them and then scale the presentation to the remaining space in the presentation window...  so we can see the entire presentation.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-11-12T13:52:40+00:00

    Same problem.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-11-08T10:27:08+00:00

    this is infuriating! please fix!

    Jennier,

    I concur with the others. The share tool bar is annoying when it's in the conference window view. It doesn't auto-hide and often obscures important information. It needs to have a button on the side to make it go away. Please fix.

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