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
    2024-01-11T00:54:24+00:00

    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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-23T19:44:51+00:00

    Yes, the tool bar is intrusive during meetings, especially when one is using multiple tabs.

    If the bar was vertically placed, on either the right or left side of the screen and could be minimized, the problem would be solved.

    Maybe Microsoft can fix this in the next update? Other than that, the app is great.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-25T16:13:50+00:00

    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.

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  4. 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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  5. 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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