Share pointer while screen sharing
TeamViewer screen sharing has a nice feature to share pointer. So when other meeting participants wants to show the presenter something on screen, the presenter can see where they pointing. It's really useful feature.
Mateusz Moska
shared this idea
This request has been accepted by the feature team and is in the queue.
It isn’t the neatest, but as a workaround you can request control in order to do this.
I’ll keep you posted as more information becomes available.
-Warren
21 comments
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Anonymous
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I work with clients daily, and being able to see their screen but highlight items with my mouse would be exceptional. I don't want to have to take control of the mouse for this to work.
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Anonymous
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I honestly can't understand why this feature is not available!
We are migrating to Teams as an organisation, but I will continue to use our existing screen sharing solution for as long as possible to allow me to be able to show my mouse pointer to the presenter and the rest of the meeting. It is absolutely essential!
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Anonymous
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FYI for anyone wanting this feature, in the meantime there is a setting in the Mouse settings where it will show circles where your cursor is when you hit the ctrl key. We've used this for years on our internal virtual training courses. Just go to the mouse settings in the control panel.
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Wil Ho
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Also the ability for the viewers to see and annotate on screen would be great. This is a feature that we love on Slack that is missing here.
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Anonymous
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any updates on this feature?
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Bryan Smith
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This feature would be useful .I need other users to be able to point at parts of diagrams during meetings.
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Jesus Puerta
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Definitely a feature that make difficult going away from TeamViewer as team screen sharing communication
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Goeran
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What is the status on this?
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Andi
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Implemented !?
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Aaron LuBean
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Slack has the ability for anyone to draw on the screen and it fades away after a few seconds. It would be very helpful to have a similar feature in MS Teams.
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Anonymous
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This feature is a big request in our organization. We are a global company and most of our meetings are online. So we'll have teams still using team viewer for the sole reason of being able to point around in the screen when working/collaborating on a project/presentation.
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Ty Brewer commented
Zoom's Annotation feature takes shared screen meetings to a whole new level. Teams has GOT to add this to stay competitive. I would dump my Zoom account if Teams had annotation capabilities. Zoom is fantastic on mobile / tablet in this regard, as well.
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Anonymous
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We were all set to switch to teams to replace Mikogo until we found that we could not do this. It is a deal breaker for us as we do team meetings all day long -- probably about 20 a day across our company of 100ish people. Other than this feature the teams meetings is coming along very well.
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Anonymous
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If you are in a meeting room, attendees may use a laser pointer or walk on to the screen. With Skype you have a hard time as you only have words to explain where you are looking at the presenters screen.
Absolute essential!
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Mats Hofverberg
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After a week of evaluation of Teams we found that missing the ability to click on the screen and get a label stating who clicked is the one feature missing for us to use it fully and to replace TeamViewer as well.
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Joshua Davies
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We really need this to replace TeamViewer - It is essential in our work
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i
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This feature is very important to my team and was used daily on other business conferencing apps (Slack, Zoom).
Please prioritize this as highly as possible.
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Anonymous
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Teams is a good platform, but requires the ability to annotate, point and draw while in screen share mode. Zoom has these features and it makes all the difference in the world. Please implement.
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Ty Brewer
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Zoom's implementation where there is a flag that sticks the user's name in it works well.
Can't emphasize enough how nice and useful this would be in Teams!!! Makes a *huge* difference to enable remote users to interact with others in this regard.
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hizzaman
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For sophisticated collaborative work this small feature is really essential. The more the larger the goup/team. Requesting control is not a feasible workaround. We used to work with quite a lot of different tools like Skype, Skype for Business (Lync), MS Teams, Mikogo, Zoom, Google Hangout, TeamViewer / Blizz. Since the only tool ofering this 'pointing' feature is TeamViewer, but TeamViewer is not a chat/communication tool, we often ended up using Skype for the communication and TeamViewer for Screensharing. Which is kind of embarrassing.