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
    2023-05-01T19:25:57+00:00

    Hello,

    I'm Josephine, happy to help you today. I am an independent advisor and a customer like you

    I'm very sorry about the inconvenience. Normally a thread closes automatically after 72 hours so that would be the case with the previous one. I hope a solution is gotten this time around.

    Open Microsoft Teams.
    Start a call.
    Move the mouse away/off the taskbar.
    The taskbar will disappear in a few seconds.

    I would be expecting a reply to this thread

    Sincerely,
    Josephine.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-02T11:43:38+00:00

    Having to wait a few seconds is the problem. This is a meeting app that slows down meetings. In order to be able to see what is happening during the meeting, you must STOP the meeting and tell everyone to WAIT while we all wait for Microsoft Meet to get out of the way of the meeting.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-05-02T12:55:09+00:00

    Am sorry about that Roderick

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-09-21T10:08:41+00:00

    Yeah, i'm with Roderick! It is frustrating, I am a developer working from home and I ALWAYS have to apologise to other people for waiting 1-2 seconds for this toolbar to get out of the way!

    It's embarrassing and wastes time during my work, please make it removable or movable to the side!!!

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-11-17T21:51:26+00:00

    We need the ability to at least drag this control bar when screensharing to another monitor or as it's own app window. Both of these can be done in Zoom, and Teams is a meeting app so I'm disappointment to see that's not an option with Teams. Please at least add a toggle to enable/disable the bar in the interim.

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