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
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This feature remains on the backlog, while we work on other high priority Meetings features.
151 comments
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Anonymous
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in a Remote work environment, this is crucial for our company to improve collaboration. any updates on when this will be rolled out? It's been on the backlog for a while. Team Viewer allows for this if you'd like to see an example of how it works.
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Anonymous
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I agree with others here that sharing the pointer is a critical feature that should be implemented ASAP. It greatly enhances the ability for true interaction with other participants and reduces the frustration of one participant having to waste everyone's time trying to explain where on a map, drawing or document they want to focus everyone's attention.
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anonym
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This feature would be much more helpful then this recently implemented "raise hand" feature.
It seems that it got lost in the backlog? -
Anonymous
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This is a a crucial function that needs to be implemented. It limits seriously the interactions without the ability to point but also to highlight or comment.
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André Becher
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+1
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Anonymous
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It is essential a pointer and a pen in order to improve the interaction with the other meeting participants
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Stéphane François
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This is a a crucial function that needs to be implemented. It limits seriously the interactions without the ability to point but also to highlight or comment.
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Mark Elliott
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It is essential that this item is made high priority.
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Anonymous
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This is me demoing the product to users, here’s a great feature, another great feature, further great feature. A user asks what the PowerPoint experience is like, straight away notices the mouse pointer is missing for the presenter, how are we supposed to highlight detail in a presentation where no one is in the room to point at it without that, er don’t know. Find out pretty quickly you open PowerPoint presentation in the browser through SharePoint instead and share that instead, hardly slick its an odd omission for a remote presentation tool.
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Johannes Jan Struijk
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PowerPOINT presentations are seriously hampered by the inability to POINT at something.
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Jin Wang
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Lacking this function is a killer for Teams. It is pretty cool to allow viewers to flip through slides without interrupting the presenter. But the presenter CANNOT use the pointer in the ppt sharing mode. Seriously??
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Anonymous
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+1
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Anonymous
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Alex.., spoken like a true Microsoft lemming!
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Anonymous
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I am workin gon linux. I am a Professor. I am unable to point out the catchig words and figures using pointer. This feature is the most wanted.
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Maximiliano
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This should be a high priority feature...
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Robert
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This is really extremely important. We are rolling out teams worldwide and most of the questions we get are about this feature. -
Anonymous
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disappointing!
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Pedro Espinoza
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Alex, can you give me an example of the other high importance priorities? ..... I am just curious.
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Anonymous
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I would love to have this! Actually you have to to this by taking over the screen from the partner, and that is not wanted or allowed in some cases. So you cannot show your partner the point on the screen you want so show.
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Anonymous
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Hop in the Microsoft Teams way way back machine...
Before there was Teams, there was Skype For Business...
Before there was Skype for Business, there was Lync...
Before there was Lync, there was Business Productivity Online Suite or just BPOS...
Before BPOS, there was a free, albeit probably internal skunk werks, tool called Shared View.
Shared view was a desktop sharing tool that allowed up to 15 Windows Live users to view a single desktop, all over port 80, no firewall problems. Worked really well. And guess what, each viewer had an individually colored pointer with mouse click blips or bursts. It was cool.
I have been an avid Microsoft Collaboration user for obviously many many years, and have requested this feature with each evolution. I have been nice, I have been rude, I have begged. But No joy from Microsoft.
The problem is a two edged sword. Microsoft program managers, across the board, have revolving doors. They change like the weather in Redmond. They are frequently younger and younger, have little to no real business acumen, nor real customer facing experience, they get the job based on ambition an outlook. There is no continuity through product or program evolutions, and requests like this are lost.
So, I use Team Viewer for my customer support sessions instead of Microsoft’s collaboration tool of the day. I do this based solely on this feature. But don’t get me wrong, I have the same love-hate relationship with Team Viewer. I have been asking for an audio cue and a tray pop-up when a user opens a support request with the embedded quick support tool. They do that if the user sends a chat message, but not when they start a session. This is also a very basic feature, whose absence should be considered a bug rather than a feature request. But yet, has gone unfulfilled for over 3 years, in spite of being requested by many users.
So what do you do. I dunno. I guess we have to just believe our big technology “Partners” know best what we need. I think not.