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can't find option for full screen after update
Focus is not a good substitute for full screen, now im finding it hard on my fairly small laptop screen to see what the people sharing, are sharing. Full screen is the best way, it almost doubles the visible area vs focus.... Why remove it ????StevenC365
Microsoft did mention this in the Message Centre Post about the new Meeting Experience
Know limitations: Meeting notes will launch to the main Teams client Support for full screen content viewing will be coming in the future Support for Invision Freehand Whiteboard will be coming in the futureSo it will be coming in the future.
Like with many things the decision to ship without it will have been agonized over, say it would take another 3 months to build Full Screen into the new experience, would you rather not have pop out meetings for 3 months while waiting? You can always turn off the new experience for the next 2 months and stay with the existing Full Screen option.
If you want to tell them why it's important that this is sooner rather than later I would recommend doing so through UserVoice https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/
"Focus" is *NOT* the same thing, effectively or otherwise, as FullScreen mode. When someone is sharing their laptop screen, and we all have the same laptops, "Focus" has to distort and crumple the pixels to get it to fit in the smaller area due to the sacrificed and useless horizontal bar throwing away screen real-estate. Small text is illegible. Sure you can zoom in and then slide your view of the screen around like on a Ouija board -- that's productive. Not.
I disabled "New Meeting Experience" but something keeps turning it back on. How do I kill "New Meeting Experience" for good (or at least until Teams supports *real* full screen)?
Thanks,
David
Teams has a habit of changing options sometimes when updates occurs but from your wording it sounds like the next time you use Teams, every time, you get into Teams you are finding the 'New Experience' option selected again. I suspect this might be because you may be failing to quit Teams and relaunch it including Signing Back into Teams again. Quitting Teams should cause a Sign Out but you need to make sure you have signed out of Teams and it is not running. Relaunching Teams and signing back in should then make the 'New Experience' option change take effect. Changing the 'New experience' Option does not take effect until you have Restarted Teams. Failure to Restart Teams will not make this Option change take effect. Of course, if you Restart Windows, this will also cause Teams to Restart as well. So, this might be your problem if you are not Restarting.
Thank you StevenC365, good to know that the full screen will come to the new experience. I will now go back to the older one.
- i don't understand why they will need extra 3 months to build the Full Screen Feature that is already in the current version? Before removing the feature that is commonly used, why not look at the status of the usage or ask the users? Microsoft has a habit of releasing Beta versions that's really not ready..
It is insane that MS Teams lacks a fullscreen mode when using separate windows for a meeting. I can't believe Intel Corp (my employer) bought into the MS Office 365. Every other new feature has 1 step forward, 2 steps back 20 or 30 years in intuitive user-experience and functionality.
