Streamline your presentation with the Presenter Toolbar in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft announced two new Teams features: a freely movable Presenter toolbar and one-click optimization for smooth video playback that can help you refine your presenting experience in a meeting.

In the official blog post, Microsoft wrote:

Now when you share your screen in a Teams meeting, you can easily move the Presenter toolbar to any place you want on your screen. This makes it easy to adjust the location of the toolbar based on the layout of the content being shared, ensuring that you can still see the important areas of the screen. 

We’ve also added a new feature to the Presenter toolbar in Teams that lets you manually optimize video playback when screensharing. If the automatic video detection fails or is delayed, just use the Optimize button on the Presenter toolbar to make sure your content runs as smoothly as possible.

How does it work?

To present your screen in a Teams meeting, click Share from the toolbar to share your screen. Now, move the Presenter toolbar from its default location to any area on your screen by clicking on the non-interactive area of the Toolbar.

The Presenter toolbar will also minimize after 4 seconds when it is not in use, and when minimized, the toolbar will show a red badge to indicate the ongoing sharing session.

For a smoother playback experience of a video or other motion content, you can hit the Optimize button on the toolbar before sending it.

How can I use these features?

To use these features, you must be a member of Teams Public Preview or Microsoft 365 Targeted release and use the new Teams client for Windows and Mac.

To turn on your Team client for the Public Preview, ensure the IT administrators should enable Show preview features in the update policy.

To participate in the targeted release, global admins need to go to the Microsoft 365 admin center and, depending on their preferences, provide access to selected individuals or entire organizations.

Have you tried the moving Presenter Toolbar feature yet? If so, share your experience with our readers in the comments section below.