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
    2020-05-13T13:52:37+00:00

    So the answer is no. Thanks Microsoft.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-05-13T08:29:22+00:00

    The Teams control task bar is indeed hiding as it supposed to but it also unhides after a click or a movement.

    We like to keep it hidden or have it moved to a less annoying place.

    It's now on a place you find the X-axis of a graph or the subtitling of a movie in a presentation.

    Please change this behavior.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-05-12T15:58:09+00:00

    This seems to mirror EarlOrlando's solution.

    1. Move cursor to top right
    2. Right click on your picture in top right of screen on line that serach bar is.  
    3. A pop up menu ' copy image' appears for your head shot. 

    1. Wait for the meetings control menu bar to time out.
    2. Ignore pop up and take screen shot. As long as pop-up is opened the mouse movement etc seem to not trigger menu reappearing.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-05-08T21:46:38+00:00

    Hello, I posted a workaround back in March but I think it's lost between a lot of messages. Btw, I know that companies don't release updates so often (that happens where I work, a big company) but fortunately I use this tool also for school with Microsoft regulated updates and it's already fixed.

    The workaround is as follows, please let me know if this works for you.

    1. Left-click over the presenter's video, which hides the bar. 
    2. Without moving the cursor after step 1, make a right-click which shows a contextual menu.
    3. Move the cursor out of the Teams window and make a left-click, the contextual menu disappears, and the Team's bar stays hidden.

    Cheers,

    Earl.

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