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
    2020-02-26T11:42:09+00:00

    Hijacking this kinda, is there a way to hide (or move) the Teams control task bar, so that it doesn't automatically come up when ever you move your mouse inside the window? Really frustrating and annoying when presenting or recording meetings.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-02-19T15:55:13+00:00

    I have the same problem. Why can't we turn off the toolbar so we can actually view the full presentation material? It should be possible to put the control bar out of view and be able to move the mouse and press keys on the keyboard without it constantly reappearing. This wasn't a problem on lync / skype - can't we just have that functionality back???

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-02-18T19:33:24+00:00

    i am trying really hard to believe that Microsoft will do something, and then i think if they really cared about the problem, they would have done it by now. 

    so then i think, perhaps they are phasing it out and dont want the investment ....

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-02-18T18:01:44+00:00

    Also another site to vote on this issue: 

    https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/38271673-reposition-the-control-bar?page=2&per_page=20

    Not that Microsoft seems to care, though.

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