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
    2020-05-07T12:43:52+00:00

    I agree, we would like to remove it permanently for duration of a meeting, then we should also be able to bring it back into view if needed. Skype for Business starts with controls at bottom, outside presentation area then like many other similar meeting applications, has a pin / unpin implementation at top of screen. Teams application could easily move these buttons up to top bar of meeting to get them out of presentation area while still supporting user to use the controls if needed.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-05-07T03:53:01+00:00

    Really not the best as it is only temporary. We want to be able to minimise the toolbar out of the way and bring it back when we want to. Everytime you click and then move your mouse it comes back.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-05-06T17:52:38+00:00

    Looks like this thread started in 2019. It's 2020 and this is still an issue. It's hard to follow a presentation when the box blocks some of the critical content.  any update on being able to move/hide that menu bar?

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-05-06T16:12:21+00:00

    I have the same problem, and have found that when I move my mouse off the meeting screen, even to a different monitor, and sometimes it auto-hides but other times it doesn't. I'm in a meeting right now where the control bar is covering a section of the PowerPoint presentation. My mouse has been on my other monitor for several minutes but the control bar is still there. I'd be happy if I could just move it out of the way...

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