Manually Hide Teams Tool Bar during Presentations, or move it out of the way

Anonymous
2023-05-01T18:44:26+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2024-06-14T13:16:45+00:00

    See my earlier reply on May 2 (and giving proper credit to @Brandi Stewart for the original answer):
    "pressing that nasty top control bar" or "moving your mouse to make it appear" is not entirely complete; press somewhere on the top control bar to make it 'active' -- i found pressing the time clock on the Sharing Toolbar to be the most innocuous part to click to make it 'active'.

    Then the Ctrl-W (Cmd-W on Macs) makes it disappear -- and I don't think there's a way to make the control-bar reappear -- all I've found is to Stop Sharing, and then resume Sharing to have it go back to the default of appearing when you mouse up to the top -- and it's hiding your browser tabs again :-| )

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-03-07T15:02:56+00:00

    I think you'd need the same thing we're all asking for - the ability to slide it out of the way in the same fashion that is there on RDP.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-28T21:56:56+00:00

    Should we try and all upvote on the Feedback hub?

    https://aka.ms/AApcxjv

    https://aka.ms/AAo3p52

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-07T08:49:56+00:00

    I wholly endorse this request - allow the bar to be repositioned by the user - just as Remote Desktop does. You already have multiple MS products that your developers can leverage from.

    This is an absolute bind and actually had me have to request attendees switch to Zoom yesterday.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-01-30T12:58:39+00:00

    Hi,

    The idea is not available. Is there an other I can vote to?

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