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

Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Teams for business | 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
    2020-01-21T20:59:48+00:00

    Wow! I went into Google hoping to find an answer and came across this thread.

    I have the very same problems as stated by everyone in this forum. And, as mentioned by others, Snipping Tool is a waste of time. When needing to quickly take multiple screenshots, the tool is useless.

    One would think a corporation as large as Microsoft to be on the leading edge of technology. Hard to believe the product even came to market with this glaring problem. Now that it's come to light, what's taking them so long to implement a solution???

    Seeing that Microsoft has gone radio silent on this thread, their lack of response seems to indicate the degree of importance they place on this issue.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-01-30T15:24:58+00:00

    This is really annoying. Significantly obscures the view anytime I use my mouse, which is a lot with 3 screens.  And screen shots are impossible.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-01-30T15:43:11+00:00

    Lol! We had the ridiculous situation the other day where the remote presenter had the bar up on his screen, and the local attendee had it on his screen, and no one could work out which was which. It made the attendee who was projecting locally, and the presenter who was remote, both look completely stupid in front of a new  prospect.

    Thanks for that Microsoft, we won't be winning any business with those guys.

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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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