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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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As someone who shared my screen every day, this is the most intrusive, annoying, and useless feature. There is no use as you can just open the teams app and stop the call/stop screensharing.
Please just get rid of it entirely.
This was not helpful at all. He asked to REMOVE the bar. When you need to click something at the top of the screen the bar essentially makes Teams useless. Horrible feature.
Just as bad on a mac
Same problem for me: the "You're sharing your screen"-toolbar in new teams overlaps the browser tabs.
I know I can restore down my browser, and then click on the tab. All of this is taking 2-3 seconds in total.
BUT: this all is distracting. To the viewers, who wonder about my senseless clicking around. To me, when in the middle of explaining complex details.
If Teams wants to stay with this feature, here a mitigation option:
When the "Pin" mode is not selected, then show the collapsed toolbar (the small one with a height of about 20px).
And show the huge, distracting one, only on mouse-hover. Best with a delay of 500ms.
Remember Pin-setting from last session.
Hey.
I just wrote a little tool to hide the bar since there seems to be no option which does just that: https://github.com/mroter93/TeamsHider
Maybe you can make some use of it until microsoft offers an option to hide it completely.
Edit: Just uploaded a new version which will also hide the bottom overlay properly when you are in a conference with multiple people.