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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Anonymous
    2024-04-23T16:20:58+00:00

    it's a complete joke that this has not been fixed.

    WE DON'T WANT THE STUPID BAR - MAKE AN OPTION TO REMOVE IT

    it really is that simple - Microsoft proving their incompetence once again.....

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  5. 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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