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 feature remains on the backlog, while we work on other high priority Meetings features.
393 comments
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Magdi Elsayed
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I was thinking this feature is definitely needed and was not surprised it was already suggested on User Voice. I think that in the case RavenActual described, the presenter was sharing their desktop (having the PowerPoint on their screen) and not presenting using the Teams' built in PowerPoint sharing function which is better as the PowerPoint presentation being shown is being broadcast from the Teams server to the audience, as opposed to sharing your desktop which means the screen has to constantly be uploaded from the presenter's machine to the server and then broadcast to the audience.
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Anonymous
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I agree! I am a teacher and crucial during lessons.
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Georgi Belogurov
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It should work if ppt is shared as screenshare (i.e. desktop or window), but it does not work when ppt is shared directly (the latter approach is much more bandwidth efficient). So yes, it would be nice to get onscreen pointer in direct sharing mode of ppt files (not screenshare). See annotate.net for a working example. One must admit that it might be not very straightforward to implement such pointer or pen. Pointer would presumably require a dedicated stream of data, albeit a very tiny one.
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Waylon Ballard
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The pointer should be high priority. It’s very long overdue. It is used very frequently by team members during screen sharing. People in my company around the globe express frustration daily concerning the lack of pointing capability during Teams meetings. Please give this priority to get out soon.
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Lia
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We need this feature so much... Hope you can give it a higher priority especially in times like these....
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Tony
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What can be higher priority?
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Drag
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This feature would be highly appreciated!
Reading comments below, seems like this belongs on top of your backlog!
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royboy
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Slack already has this. We are in the middle of integrating Teams and this is a big piece that is missing for users who are all used to this feature in Slack.
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David Anderson
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This is exceedingly necessary. Especially when used in an educational setting.
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Anonymous
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I'm trying to point to stuff on dense web pages to guide new team members on navigating through our internal dashboards etc. It's very inconvenient to not have the cursor showing up.
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Rubén Münzing
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Very important Feature for contract negotiations! Please add it to Teams.
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Anonymous
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must have imho
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Martin Greve
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Bitte den Pointer einführen. Der fehlt
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Anonymous
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Much awaited feature - please add urgently !
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Anonymous
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Please add this urgently.
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Frank Friborg
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I Support the comment /opinion from Christian Gärtner! Without the pointer you can only tell what you mean, sometimes causing confusion! It would really be helpful if you could implement this.
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Christian Gärtner
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The tool "Fastviewer" has this feature. You click on the presenters screen and the presenter and all others see where you are pointing.
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Christian Gärtner
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This feature is a must (in my opinion). Other Screensharing tools already have this feature. I spend a lot of time when guiding someone via Skype/Teams through a application and describing where the person has to click.
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Brian Seekford
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Sitting in a meeting right now where the presenter has to explain where he is pointing. painful. This needs to be added.
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Ulrich
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Missing Pointer feature - Priority 1 for implementation