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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.
Dang this thread is so hilarious ! Come on Microsoft 277K views ! Maybe something is happening here and you even might be wrong indeed !!! Lmao
BTW Here is a workaround, thanks TheLocalizer
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/hide-bar-at-top-of-teams-sharing/m-p/4092812/highlight/true#M132809Ctrl-W doesn't seam to work on all versions of teams though. Alt+F4 kind of works everywhere.
Steven CollierThis thread is now 2 years old and keeps growing what's going on ?!?- You can adjust your browser settings in Google Chrome to match Teams' recommended screen resolution and check Teams' settings to disable the prompt. This should resolve the issue.
Johnnwhite do you have a link to those recommended settings. This is the first I've heard that MS Teams has recommended settings for browsers. Furthermore, this is not a solution, it's just a workaround (if it works).
I have a quick Fix for this.
Just kill the tool bar window by clicking on the Shared Window Toolbar to select it and then press CTRL+W to close it completely (⌘W on Mac works too, thanks Keith_D!). I just click the clock timer area to avoid clicking a button. This gets rid of the bar pop up for good during a share session.It is the greatest invention of the year.
The "Ctrl-W Hack" will free many businessmen from stress.
I respect you.
TheLocalizer's reply needs to be marked as the new BEST RESPONSE by rayted22 so it shows on the front page of the thread.
- Awesome, finally a solution! Thank you!
- It isn't really a solution but a work-around. The fact is the design choice is horrible and everyone hates it. The community found a way to avoid it, but MS needs to fix it. That'd be the "solution."
I do agree the Ctrl-W should be marked as "best answer."
- Instead of fixing a long-running complaint about the sharing toolbar, the devs at MS doubled down and made it even worse. Why do companies still give these clowns their money?
Yes, I've had the same annoying problem. I had to stop sharing to access the Chrome tab the bar had hidden then start sharing sharing again. So distruptive during a workshop with a whole lot of people!
For those who say that it is easy to avoid the top edge, I assure that it is not.
At the very least we should be able slide it out of the way and/or condense the length of it.The only way I've manged to deal with this is to shrink the window so its not full screen. Then I can see the tabs I need at the top of it.
It would be preferable we w could unlock it though.
- That's what I do. I wish there was an option to display it at the top, or left, right, etc.
I see people in this thread saying switching to Classic helps, and I can't imagine how. Maype it's different when using New Teams in Classic Mode vs using Teams Classic?
I still have Teams Classic (fully Classic - no toggle available) & the bar still regularly gets in the way - especially if sharing on a laptop with no secondary display (as often is the configuration when working remote or on the road).KPage955 , it never really went away for me via pin/unpin in Classic, so it was still awful. I finally have New Teams now though, and I must agree; as bad as it was, the new bar is worse. At least by the time I got New Teams last month, TheLocalizer had already found a solution.
I discovered a hack that works well until this is fixed. It would seem that the toolbar is actually a separate application that Teams calls when you share in a meeting so if you click on the toolbar, you can then press ALT-F4 or CTRL-W (shortcuts to close the running application) and it closes just the toolbar. This works great so long as you don't need to "Give Control" or "Annotate" during the session, as those functions seems to be only available in the toolbar, hence it running as a separate application. All the other functions are still available in the main Teams window.
- Thanks RK_CHS! I will definitely try the ALT-F4 to close the Teams Screen Share Bar. Very strange that it simply doesn't have a handle to move it over, or make it collapse-able... on the top of my list for most annoying "features" of Teams.
rayted22Hello, just to add. Even when the pin is pressed and the bar is set to autohide, it still gets in the way of tabs near the centre of my screen. In my work, I quite commonly need to share my screen with my browser, or an application that has controls near the top of the screen. For my workflow I really need this bar disabled completely. I'm using the newest teams, and the bar never goes away fully when sharing the screen. Instead, it gives you a smaller version of the bar which has a red button to stop sharing. This little red button is still intrusive and still gets in the way of important meetings and discussions. Struggling with the controls near the top of the screen because Teams has covered them up is very intrusive to an otherwise important and productive meeting. The pin for the sharing bar doesn't really help, I need the top of my screen completly clear.
- Having the screen share bar at the top really causes issue when trying to view content. I have multiple monitors and large screens and I'm not able to move, arrange, or similar. Please FIX this ASAP as it causes daily issues. Everyone on our team complains about this issue. Other similar (competing) products don't have this issue and let you freely move the bar around as needed. Ideally I'd like to be able to move the bar around my current screen and also onto other screens too. BTW The 'Pin' feature doesn't seem to do anything either.
