Add the full screen option during Screen Sharing and Meetings
Why did Teams remove the full screen Option during Screen Sharing and Meetings? This was an option before and now it's been replaced by "Focus" which DOES NOT do the same thing. Now ever time someone share their screen with me, I have to squint at what they're showing. The Focus option does nothing. We used to be able to full screen shared screens and see everything at the proper size. It is unprofessional of Microsoft to keep removing and changing useful features without any notice.
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Axel R
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MS: You need Fullscreen? Sorry, but emojis are more importent:
" We are excited to announce that an expanded set of emojis are included in our May 2021 Public Preview pack and will be available to users who opt into Public Preview. This update includes over 800 new emojis, along with skintone options, different genders for applicable emojis and new emojis featuring people with disabilities." -
Anonymous
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Seriously... how hard can this be!?
I have a suggestion that would clear up most of your backlog. Buy Slack. You bought Skype, and it didn't pan out so well. Don't let that discourage you though! Slack is superior to Teams in almost every area. It is a safe purchase.
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Anonymous
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This is closing in on a YEAR since you claimed to be working on this. Can't you just hire someone from RingCentral or Zoom or Slack or any of the other services that knows how to do this?
If it has taken your engineers 8 months, and they still can't figure it out, they need outside help.
This is the single biggest reason why I recommend that our clients use Zoom instead of Teams.
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Anonymous
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Please do your best to introduce "Full screen" feature asap. Working on huge excel file is extremely complicated without it. Also the "escape" shortcut to move from the full screen and moving the window with multiple screen is mandatory (same as it worked on Skype)
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David
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If the presenter and the viewer are both using the same resolution monitor, then what is being shared should be showed 1:1, pixel-for-pixel with no scaling. My team and I all use 4K monitors and when someone shares their screen, the small amount of scaling that goes on to make it fit on my screen WITH the extra bars that Teams adds makes the text very hard to read. As a result, they have to present from a smaller screen (which often happens to be MUCH smaller just because that's what they have) so that we can all read their text.
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SadBunny
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I'm sure that MS understands by now that we need this. I'm sure that MS developers use Teams all the time to work on code or presentations together (especially in this work-from-home era), and constantly run into the problem that they have to zoom+scroll or change resolutions to collaborate. I'm sure all 1457 of us are not the only people who've complained about this obvious feature.
What I am not entirely sure about is how this is less important than emoji's, notification styling or re-skinning the A/V settings pane or a 5-minutes-left-warning?
2021 brought a number of good improvements to Teams, e.g. system audio sharing on MacOS, breakout rooms, better lobby management and more slideshow presentation freedom. All good improvements. But come on, for half a year, this it all we get? Many (if not most) of us have pretty much been glued to this product for like 6-8 hours a day for the entire past year, and especially for the power users, little has improved.
And on this front, as many have noted, it's actually gotten worse because this function was in there, but was *removed*. I get that MS is not going to explain this, but I wish they would explain this.
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John Sun commented
The worst thing in the Teams is missing full screen feature . Previously the workable around solution was "Disable [Turn ON new meeting experience] ".
Now Microsoft removed the option to make thing worse.
the full screen share feature was there since OCS/Lync/SfB, but it is gone in Teams.. -
S Siddiqui
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Alex, it's more 8 months. Surely more than enough time to roll out this functionality.
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Gerd
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Interesting: There is a true full screen mode available in Teams on Linux.
See https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/can-t-find-option-for-full-screen-after-update/m-p/1495966/page/7 for details and a short description.
Perhaps the Windows developers should just have a chat with their fellow colleagues next door on how they accomplished that :)
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nk
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Why would you remove this? Zoom has had this feature for a long time, that is to pop out the screenshare but keep the larger video view.
Either that or adjust the video view and the screenshare to how you want it. I'd rather see my colleagues and have a large screen so plenty of room for both but Teams doesn't support it :(
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Andrey
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Any update for the proper full screen option with 1:1 aspect ratio?
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Richard Morris
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Can you please provide an update on when this vital feature will be re-introduced, please? Surely it's more important than having changed the Emojis, recently?
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Gabe A.
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@Alex there has been an addition of a mode called "Full screen" to the new meetings experience. It does not go full screen. It is misleading and/or broken. Please do not remove this item from the backlog or mark it as complete. The addition of a fake/broken full-screen option into the new teams experience is WORSE than not having it at all, because it allows tricky developers to mark this ticket as "complete" when it couldn't be farther from the truth.
This is bordering on insulting. Please bring back actual full screen mode. Every other major teleconferencing app has had this for years. Skype for Business had this. It's a no-brainer.
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Mike
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Hello Microsoft Teams UserVoice,
when sharing screens e.g. for code review it would be much more eye pleasing if the full screen option was available.Many of our devleopers do use the same screen resolution. With a proper full screen mode in Teams, the view would not be scaled and the letters would be displayed crisp and sharp. Hope this feature will return sooooon.
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Mikael
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Everyday I wish we had Zoom instead of teams, the meeting experience is so much better. This enormous top banner is absolutely not required when we're checking slides. The full screen option is just normal, why did you remove it?
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Nick Djukanovic
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It's disappointing this feature still hasn't re-appeared. We use Teams meetings for virtual presenters at events, I show them on screen in room so they can talk to the audience but having all that UI on screen means I've moved everything to Zoom.
We also live stream a lot and had been using Teams to bring virtual presenters in and pinning them full screen so we could switch to that shot during the stream. Again with all the UI in the way I have been forced to push everyone over to Zoom.
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Anonymous
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A couple of days are gone by since the 21st of october 2020.
We're now using microsoft teams version 1.4.00.8872 (64-Bit) as of 28st of april 2021 and still there is no real fullscreen mode available.
I always understood that the teams app is for business customers, those customers are companies that have hundreds of employees. and those employees using a screensharing tool that doesn't support fullscreen. i'm working in engineering in the chemical industry and we're using cad software at 3840x1600. if a user is sharing his screen and even the resolutions match i can't read the text in the toolbars, command window etc. this is pretty annoying - nobody understands this.
the whole program still seems to be a quickshot that millions are forced to work with. -
Anonymous
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Our events also relied on the Fullscreen-possibility of Teams.... Now, as it has gone we will definitly look into alternatives as it´s not usable anmore. If NDI would work fine it´s no big deal, but now both is broken....
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Wolfgang Höbarth
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I would really appreciate if the real Fullscreen mode would come back. If the presenter and the viewer have the same screen resolution it was perfect in the past – now it is blurred. I think that the undesired rescaling even cost CPU-power.
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Anonymous
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My company has been doing remote mulitcam content captures via Teams. We stopped using the Teams NDI feature because of rampant video and sync issues, instead we where doing full screen screen caps. With full screen gone from Teams, we are now pushing all of our clients towards Zoom for recording sessions. Until the NDI feature is made more reliable, or fullscreen is returned, Teams is no longer an option for us. It's a shame because it was working so well for us prior to this change.