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Access chats while sharing your screen in Teams meetings

elmeazza

Microsoft

May 27, 2025

Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! I’m Elisa Meazza, a Senior Product Manager on the Teams team. I’m excited to let you know that presenters can now more easily access the meeting chat while sharing a windo...

The Chat button on Teams in the top toolbar showing the option to Open Chat Privately.

Updated May 27, 2025

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chrismenard

Copper Contributor

Aug 02, 2025

Accessing chat while sharing is a great feature! I'm in Teams meetings every day and use this feature. Here is a short video I made on how to access chat while screen sharing.
https://youtu.be/NMS6cDUQURI?si=wtM6u5_W5-YBQ_k_