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Y'all closed the last thread about this so I'm opening a new one. The problem is still the same and the implementation still gets in the way of people doing business with your tool. What I don't understand is why the previous thread was closed with so many people over years complaining of the same problem. The toolbar getting in the way leads to wasted time telling others to wait to proceed so you can see what is on the screen. Come on, Microsoft, you can fix this.
A new post to reflect that this has been discussed and responded to numerous times in the thread "Hiding Teams Control Task Bar (at Bottom of Teams Screen) During a Meeting (So Screenshot of Shared Screen is Clean)". Despite being in the 'answered' state, this is still a major problem. The core problem is not related to screen shots, but usage in general.
The Teams Tool Bar is constantly in the way of presentations. Either my own, or the presenters. A mechanism is required to allow the user to manually hide, move or pin elsewhere the Teams Tool bar.
Please fix.
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I am still dealing with this issue in 2024. Can't believe its not fixed yet. So frustrating.
Found out today that simply pressing that nasty top control bar and hit
CMD + W(macOS) to completely close it 🤯Hope that helps you folks 👍
PS: On macOS the CMD key is the same as the Windows key on Windows keyboards and the hotkey closes the currently active window. Hope that helps you to fine the correct combination for Windows 👍
That works!
Found out today that simply pressing that nasty top control bar and hit CMD + W (macOS) to completely close it 🤯
Hope that helps you folks 👍
PS: On macOS the CMD key is the same as the Windows key on Windows keyboards and the hotkey closes the currently active window. Hope that helps you to fine the correct combination for Windows 👍
Yeah it's so bad. Happens to me frequently. It's a f*cking joke that Microsoft hasn't fixed this yet. Real bonehead move making it immovable.
"What I don't understand is why the previous thread was closed with so many people over years complaining of the same problem."
Its because they know this will never be addressed. Microsoft has decided, for whatever reason, this is the way things are going to work. Annoying features no one asked for, forced use of emojis, disabling the "back" button and the Copy/Paste function on this site, not letting you edit comments, Once Microsoft does this they will refuse to change, and they will refuse to explain why it works this way.
The automatic conversion of text into emoticons is the one that gets me. They have this massive list of emoticons and if you place two symbols next to each other that happen to match, they;ll turn into an emoticon. Always. You can't disable it. You can mitigate it by using rich text editor every single time you type anything. They of course refuse to explain why they won't just add a toggle.
This is probably the major reason Skype and Teams are becoming less popular. Turns out not having basic features every other program has had for decades is a bad idea.