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
    2024-03-27T16:53:15+00:00

    FYI, this is NOT a solution. Having to wait "a few seconds" every time I try to click on a menu item near the taskbar is a complete waste of my time, my colleagues time, and company time.

    This is a huge problem. This needs to be fixed ASAP, top priority, above every other "bug" you have. This is the worst implementation of a toolbar I've ever seen. To force it on your customers, with no way to disable it, is a complete failure of human interface studies on the part of Microsoft. A complete failure. How could Microsoft not expect a user sharing a screen to have to access the menu bar at the top of the screen?

    And now to force everyone to have to move to "New Teams" is a slap in the face. The only way to escape this horrible interface has been not to update, and as of March 31st we can't even do that.

    This is an enormous failure the part of Microsoft. Whoever is pushing this idea needs to be fired immediately.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-04-11T07:30:33+00:00

    You can also use ctrl+page up for moving forward a tab or ctrl+page down for moving back a tab on the browser, to avoid cycling through tabs and get to a tab that's just near the active one. You can also press ctrl+1 or 2 or 3 ... 9 to switch to 1st or 2nd or 3rd tab respectively.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-04-11T14:32:31+00:00

    Yeah!! Im with Roderick too!! This is unacceptable Josephine!!!

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-04-12T04:29:40+00:00

    When presenting, hit ALT+F4 to remove the bar while presenting.

    Note this is sharing session based so not permanent.

    hope this helps

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