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
    2024-03-05T17:14:17+00:00

    Totally exemplary of Microsoft's terrible user interfaces. Like what genius thought a bar across the top of the screen that does not minimize was a good idea? How did this get past any decent product manager let alone the layers of product managers that microsoft employs.

    Its making teams literally unusable for me and my teams because we are trying to screen share frequently to show code or data. This thick, unminimizable bar covers tabs in IDEs, tabs in the browser, tabs in various database clients. It's literally the single worst place you could have placed this bar. If I could use a different video app, I would be.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-03-05T16:51:09+00:00

    Not helpful.

    While sharing, if you need to click any open tab in your browser the sharing toolbar blocks it can does not collapse out of the way. You basically CANNOT access any tab at the top of the screen while sharing! I have to manually make my screen smaller each time so my open tabs are not at the top of the screen just so I can click on them without the toolbar coming up and blocking the top of the page. Terrible user testing if you couldn't figure out this is an issue.

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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
    2024-02-28T09:46:08+00:00

    Agree with everyone else - this is poorly thought out and poorly executed and a feature that has created problems rather than fix them. You do wonder if anyone has even tried this during testing. Why MS would think that the top centre of your screen is okay to obliterate with a non-removable, unwanted toolbox is mind boggling in the extreme. Make me scream and shout every time I am sharing screens - Come on MS sort this out for goodness sake.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-02-13T14:19:00+00:00

    Just as bad on a mac

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