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
    2020-07-31T19:19:04+00:00

    I have a user who performed those very steps but Turn on new meeting experience (New meetings and calls will open in separate windows. Requires restarting Teams.)  is not available to check.  Does that mean the check updates didn't work or is this a different issue?

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-08-06T21:46:19+00:00

    Thank you Jennifer,

    Unfortunately, moving the mouse curser to obtain a view will not work when, during a meeting, you must point to something with the curser that is located behind the Teams Meeting control bar.  Please provide the option to float or dock the control bar as well as hide the control bar.  That feature would be most welcome.

    Thank You,

    Dean

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-08-11T15:17:21+00:00

    Why are these buttons in the middle of the video screen in the first place? When I move my arrow off of the application the bar still pops back up. I see other users have the buttons at the top right. How do we get that? I have updated windows and checked for updates but it is always in the way of slide shows and videos.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-08-13T14:59:37+00:00

    Hello Jennifer,

    Please, what we are saying is that, can it be removed it is quite annoying. Thank you.

    Regards

    Toyin

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