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can't find option for full screen after update
FOR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE...
There are TWO different ... what do we call them?? ... meetings, calls, sharings, whatever...
There are CALLS that you initiate through the Chat Tab - video calls, audio calls, or sharing content:
Calls at this point in time (Teams Version 1.3.00.28779 (64-bit) updated on 11/11/20.) ONLY allows for "Focus" mode which expands the sharers content to fill your Teams windows (however big you might have that window on your monitor/screen). Focus minimizes the participants to a smaller band along the bottom rather than the larger tiles.
Then there are MEETINGS that you initiate from the Calendar Tab - either "Meet Now" or "+ New Meeting":
Meetings (with the latest version of Teams) gives you two options to either "Focus" or "Fullscreen" or BOTH.
"Full screen" maximizes your Meeting window to fill your monitor, and then "Focus" will minimize the participants to the bottom giving a little more space to the shared content.
Hope this helps!
What most people seem to object to in Teams is that they can't get a True Full Screen. Not a maximized Window whether it be in Focus mode or Full Screen window (for lack of a better word). As one person yesterday Replied to me on my Posting, they wanted the option I directed them to which gave them a True Full Screen. That is a Full Screen not in a Window meaning the Window borders (such as the Title Bar of the Window) were not present and the Full Screen extended from Monitor Bezel to Monitor Bezel on all sides of the Monitor.
I informed the person who wanted a True Full Screen he could do this by going to Settings and Uncheck the 'Turn on new experience' option. With this option unchecked then selecting 'Enter Full Screen' will give you a True Full Screen'. His Reply back to me after he tried it indicated this was what he wanted.
Does this negate my post about the difference in how you initiate a call/meeting?
If you think I need to delete my post, let me know. I just figured it was helpful since it's not apparent that there are 2 different in-roads.
No, I don't think you need to delete your post. As you say it does explain about how you can initiate various chats/meetings, etc. Though, you might want to clarify it such that it is clear you are not describing how to Enter Full Screen.
However, the topic of this thread is not being able to get a Full Screen and Microsoft confuses everybody by what they are calling a Full Screen. In your explanation, the operative word you used in relation to Full Screens seemed to be 'window'. People on this topic seem to want a Full Screen that fills up the entire Monitor and not a Maximized 'Window'. Furthermore, there was yet another way sort of enter a meeting. You could enter in a Pop out 'New Experience' window or go with the still existing mode. In the 'New Experience' mode Teams 'Enter Full Screen' mode merely gave you a Maximized 'Window' and what people wanted was what I'm calling a True Full Screen. When the 'New Experience' option was recently introduced it didn't have the 'Enter Full Screen' mode option and was later added by Microsoft as if in response to the complaint users were making but this 'Enter Full Screen' mode wasn't what the Users seemingly wanted. Apparently at least the one User who tried my suggestion of turning off the 'New Experience' option saw the results was exactly what he wanted which also was exactly what I wanted, too. Apparently the Users weren't aware they could get the True Full Screen by turning off this option. So, with the information you provided Users might have continued to believe that the 'True Full Screen' option was not still available. So the reason for my Replying to you on this was to make sure you realized that the 'True Full Screen' mode was still available and how to get to it so others wouldn't be steered away from it if they wanted the 'True Full Screen', too.