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Tom1987
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Jan 31, 2021
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Share window in teams live event: cannot scroll down - not all windows are visible

In a teams meeting or in this case, a teams live event, when I want to share a window, not all windows are visible. In this case there are 4 windows, but only 2 are visible. The scroll bar does not fonction properly so I'm not able to scroll down to see the other windows. This is zoomed 100% (second image). When I change to 85% (first image) the 4 windows I can share are more or less visible. 

I'm having a live event this week where there are a lot of presenters and windows I should share, so this may not be the solution in that case. Any suggestions? 

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    Tom1987
    Jan 31, 2021

    StevenC365 I think I may have found the answer. On my laptop, the standard (and advised) setting is 125%. But this influences the Teams experience so that I cannot properly use the 'share window' selection area to scroll down. So I don't have to change the zoom in Microsoft Teams, but set my laptop screen in general to 100%. If i do that, i works fine. 🙂 

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  • Hi Tom1987 

     

    I always share a Desktop, then I can drag whichever content I need onto that. 

     

    Also, I'm not quite sure from your description, but if you have multiple presenters you still can only have one device sharing a desktop or window at one time, which is awkward with separate decks. I tend to assist that all slides are consolidated into one deck.

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      Tom1987
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      Thanks for your answer! Yes, normally I will share my desktop on a second screen. But sometimes it can be useful to share specific windows.

      My problem is that when I want to share a window (if there are many windows open) Teams does show all windows that I can share, but I cannot scroll down in that list to pick the right one. So I can see for example 2 windows but there are more windows avaliable but I cannot scroll or move down in the share section. When I zoom out to 85% I can see 4 windows instead of 2, so that proves there are more windows available to share.

      My fear is that if I also have a lot of presenters, I will only see a few on my screen and I cannot pick the presenters that are not in the 'first line' of the screen.

      I don't know if I have to change the resolution of my laptop or something in Teams or... It just makes me nervous to have a lot of windows (but I can share my desktop) or presenters and not knowing if I will be able to select them in the menu because I can't scroll down in the selection area...
      • Tom1987 There's a limit of selecting from the 10 presenters/producers who spoke last, but it does become difficult to select people on the second row. I just use the zoom option in Teams to make some more space to select them.

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