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
    2020-03-23T16:37:51+00:00

    Then that is a poorly design user interface, as many people are annoyed with how TEAMS constantly takes over the taskbar in Windows. This needs to be addressed and corrected, from a UX standpoint if nothing else.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-03-20T14:08:34+00:00

    Jennifer,

    Thanks for the tip.  Works well.

    Now, when I'm not in Full Screen mode and don't want to be, how can I hide the participant ribbon on the bottom of the screen.  With WFH now, I'm using my laptop exclusively, and use Teams meetings a lot.  The participant ribbon takes up a lot of screen space.  Any ideas?

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-03-20T00:10:37+00:00

    This bar is so frustrating; it often appears over people's faces when I'm in a meeting with many others.

    When not in full screen, it should be part of the top header; we don't need a full width 'search' field when in a video conference and that room could  should be used for the meeting controls.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-03-19T14:12:38+00:00

    This does not work for me on a consistent basis. There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to when this bar "disappears" and when it doesn't, sometimes based on the device used.

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