Screen Sharing - add an "actual size" button to show the presenter's desktop resolution
It is difficult for viewers with poor vision to see desktops that are shared. HDMeeting and other videoconferencing apps have a UI element to show the 'actual size' of the display resolution.
Users can use the zoom button to enhance the Teams call controls, but not the shared screen.
David Galloway
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Roland Weigelt
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I have to use Skype for Business instead of Teams for discussing user interfaces where being able to see pixel differences is important.
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Jean-François Larvoire
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+1 This would really be useful. I have a 40" 4K display, and shared displays are always a bit blurry. Displaying the actual original resolution would ensure optimal sharpness.
Conversely, I wish I had the ability to share an arbitrary rectangle drawn on my screen: Since other people rarely have such a large display, I can't share my full screen. Else it's unreadable on the other people screens, with too tiny fonts. The only choice left to me now is to share a single application, which is very limiting. -
Anonymous
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Bringing this feature forward would be valuable feature-add for me. It would be extremely useful especially when reviewing code or line drawings/AutoCAD files.
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PG
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Seriously though, how can this feature not be implemented yet? It is killing my eyes as others have mentioned.
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MaxS
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just use zoom... it works well with good resolution right now... years and this is still not fixed???... obviously Microsoft does not care..
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Anonymous
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Agreed, this should be a default screen size.
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Andre
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Hard to believe that in this day and age as basic a feature as showing a shared screen in actual size is not available in MS Teams and a request for it has been hanging here for over a year
What's worse, even when people share the same screen resolution as mine, MS Teams scales it down because the display area of the conference window is smaller than the screen due to the title and icon bars.
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l.v
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Skype allows this. So should Teams. This is a basic feature, it is not possible to work on remote code without it.
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Anonymous
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The lack of this feature makes me avoid Teams for meetings whenever I can. My eyes get destroyed by the unreadable content of shared screens.
See the screenshot where the sharp text is my local menu and the blurry content is the shared content. The shared monitor has the same resolution as my monitor, and I use full screen for a 1:1 mapping.
With Skype (Actual Size button) this was pixel perfect and a joy to use. The transition from Skype to Teams was like going from heaven to **** for my eyes.
Please fix this, it is really unprofessional to lose such a critical feature on a forced transiton from one solution to another.
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Wayne Peinke
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https://myteamsday.com/2019/06/18/how-to-zoom-into-shared-screen-in-teams-meeting/
Try this out... helps but still not ideal. Still need a full screen option.
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Johan van Tromp
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Can't believe this was logged in 2018 and still not addressed...
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Wayne Peinke
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Can't believe this was logged in 2018 and still not addressed...
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Paul Shainian
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Since a lot of our company is now working remote this would be very beneficial since we have a plethora of Teams meetings daily.
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Anonymous
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You can scroll inside MS teams using ctrl and the mouse cursor
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Fred
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The lack of this feature makes me avoid Teams for meetings whenever I can. My eyes get destroyed by the unreadable content of shared screens.
See the screenshot where the sharp text is my local menu and the blurry content is the shared content. The shared monitor has the same resolution as my monitor, and I use full screen for a 1:1 mapping.
With Skype (Actual Size button) this was pixel perfect and a joy to use. The transition from Skype to Teams was like going from heaven to **** for my eyes.
Please fix this, it is really unprofessional to lose such a critical feature on a forced transiton from one solution to another.
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Anonymous
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Lack of this feature is the definition of retardation
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Anonymous
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This is a big problem. I'm a software developer and during this corona time we regularly have long screensharing sessions to review each others code. It is a disaster in teams due to lack of the actual size button. It is impossible to look at that for longer than 10 minutes. Microsoft, Please Add This Button and Function!!!!! It is a piece of cake to do so and is a life saver for your fellow developers!!!!!!!
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Mario
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Yes, I can’t believe this is yet another function of Skype that is NOT available in Teams. Please add this into Teams so it can have proper functionality!!!
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Desert Crossing
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We are definitely still waiting on this in my Org.
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Anonymous
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very challenging - often displayed documents are too small for me to read on laptop
