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
    2020-05-08T20:40:17+00:00

    I came here looking for a way to hide the meeting controls in Teams and am disappointed that there is no solution despite this thread being 8 months old. Yes the control bar goes away if you move the mouse but it pops back up the instant you try to do anything like a screen shot. It covers the bottom of the presenter's display constantly and we should be able to move, hide or dock it somewhere else.  I've never had this issue with any other collaboration tool but my company has done away with all but Teams so I have to use it. Please Microsoft, fix this!

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-05-08T18:43:05+00:00

    I found that if I don''t "Maximize" my Teams window that I change the size of the Teams window so that the when the Task bar pop ups on the screen, it pops up UNDER the slides - so I can easily take clear screenshots.  Unfortunately this doesn't work in full-screen mode, but I don't really find a need for full screen as I have been able to enlarge my screenshots with a significant degradation on the appearance of the content.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-05-08T10:46:52+00:00

    This is about as worthless a suggestion as I've seen. How can that be the "answer"? I was expecting a "Microsoft has identified this as an issue and will fix it." Years later...the problem remains probably because this is marked as the answer.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-05-07T13:23:54+00:00

    I would like somebody from Microsoft to comment on this topic.   Please acknowledge if you've seen this thread.   Are you listening?

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