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Hide bar at top of teams sharing
Hi all
When I share my screen in meetings it involves using a browser i.e. I`m presenting things using google chrome.
I get a bar asking me to change my screen size/settings etc on teams. It's frustrating because I have to click away or wait a moment. Is there a way to stop this from appearing??
thanks!
rayted22 I'm not aware of any way to disable it. It's generally needed is you end up giving control to other people.
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This is a really annoying issue, all we need to do is have a button that minimizes it to any side of the screen we like and it should minimize in total to a small icon for easy reactivation.
- Yes it is very annoying. The pin button is not working at all.
- Unfortunately, all the pin button does is lock the bar so it won't go away. Unpinning it does not make the bar go away. It's seems like an insanely unfriendly feature, but I'm convinced it behaves exactly as Microsoft wants it to behave. In Microsoft's opinion, IOW, we are the ones who are using it wrong. (I have no idea how we are supposed to use it so that we don't suffer from what we've been reporting here.)
By far the most annoying Teams "feature".
- I agree with the above, the new teams sharing bar is so much worse than the previous one. The classic teams bar was annoying, but one could get used to it, avoiding the top of the screen. The new sharing bar shows exactly over the middle browser tabs, even if I'm not using full screen. It's totally unusable.
- It's really annoying. I'm trying to use a browser in meeting after meeting and have to keep waiting for 3-4 seconds every time my mouse moves just a little too high on the tab within a very fine window of space, so my presentation comes to repeated awkward halts as I'm switching over.
I've had to start resizing the browser window to be shorter that the bar even reaches when it gets opened. It solves the problem except for the loss of screen retail space for my presentation and the strange looking strip at the top of the screen where I don't have anything.
I should be able to hide it entirely or at least dock it to wherever around the edge of the screen I choose. - Same here. The new teams sharing bar is even worse. No chance to hide. Makes it extremely difficult when you share a screen with a browser and want to switch between different tabs.
- Agreed. The sharing bar in the new Teams app is worse. Part of it never goes away. I stopped using the new Teams for that reason.
- I have discovered a workaround if you have multiple monitors. When you click the Share Screen button, it gives you options for screens to share, and another option for Windows to share. If you share the WINDOW instead of the SCREEN, the bar will show up on your primary screen, and you can move the window to another to get the bar out of the way. Not a great option since you have to find the right window, and only works if you have multiple monitors, but it's something.
- I just updated to the "New Teams" app, and I am encountering the same issue. We run a morning meeting every day in which I am presenting multiple DevOps boards, and the screen sharing bar is incredibly intrusive because it always overlaps two of the tabs, even when collapsed. The "old" Teams app worked just fine without the Zoom-style top-of-window share bar. I have always found this bar style and position to be more of an irritant than an aid in Zoom, and it's frustrating that it has now been integrated into Teams and is interrupting the natural flow of our meeting. Can we get some sort of an option to reposition or even disable this "feature" completely?
davidrahl It'd be nice if they could add an option to 'move' the dashboard to the right-hand (or left-hand) side of the screen.
Get rid of this PLEASE! And the stupid mini window that forces itself above everything. I can alt-tab and focus the actual teams window if I need to change anything about my sharing settings. I don't need a constant bar at the top telling my I'm sharing my screen. The bold RED line around the edges tell me this.
This is why Microsoft software is just complete trash. They have zero awareness about customer usage and, I feel they don't even have a UX team that gets, and actually listens to, customer feedback.
Trash, just complete trash.
asenner611 , my coworker finds the mini-window to be the biggest annoyance when screen sharing in New Teams. I disagree & think the bar is worse, but at least I can now deal with the bar via TheLocalizer's Ctrl-W fix.
There's no way to preset where the mini-window will appear (eg. if I have multiple displays, it would be handy to have it default to the one I am not sharing from) though, so I may soon come to agree with my coworker.
The "New Teams" bar is even worse than classic. At least in classic you could click twice on the pin and it would go away in a few seconds. That doesn't work anymore, so I had drag the browser out from behind it. I can't even swear properly at it because I'm always in a meeting when it appears. Please make it go away!
- Its very annoying. The default status for the sharing bar is 'auto-hide/unpinned', but I have to pin and then unpin every time to make it hidden, otherwise the sharing bar stays on! I share screen all the time in the meetings and then I can't click on the browser tabs because this sharing bar hides the tabs!!! 😞 Using MacOS(12.6) Teams client version 1.5.00.26358.
- At the very least, it should be movable. There are times, especially when I am doing an RDC session while sharing that this really gets in the way. Moving it to any other edge would fix this, because it does not always 'auto-hide' itself.
