Customize Your View During a Meeting

Your view during a Teams meetings can be customized with several options so that shared content can be front and center, as well as, highlight active speakers.

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Gallery View Options.

Gallery views allow you to see several participants at once. 

  1. Click View from the meeting controls
  2. Select a gallery view option in the menu that opens
    1. Gallery: Useful for small groups of up to 9 people
    2. Larger Gallery: Available only for meetings with more than 9 participants. Displays up to 49 participants on the screen. For more than 49, option to navigate to the other participants will appear.
    3. Together mode: Places everyone's video in theater seating background. Turning this option on will, turn it on for all participants.
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Pin or Spotlight Participants

  1. Click People from the meeting controls. This icon displays the meeting participant list.
  2. Hover over the participant's name and select More options (three dots)

     
  3. Select Pin or Spotlight from the options
    1. Pin for me: Keeps this participant's video on your screen regardless of who is talking
    2. Spotlight for everyone: Makes the participant's video larger for everyone in the meeting

If you want to Unpin or stop spotlighting a participant, follow the same steps:

  1. Click People from the meeting controls. This icon displays the meeting participant list.
  2. Hover over the participant's name and select More options (three dots)
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Dock People to the Top of the Meeting View

Change the orientation of meeting participants to the top of your screen ​ to maintain better eye contact with others while content is being shared.

When you’re in the meeting

  1. Go to your meeting controls
  2. Choose View 
  3. Select Gallery at top.

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The Gallery will move from the side to the top.

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Swap Content with Gallery

When you're in a meeting with a gallery view and someone shares content, by default the content appears in the center of your meeting view and participant videos move to the side or top.

  • Select a participant's videos in gallery view to swap the content being shared with a gallery.

This action brings participants' videos to the center of the meeting view and moves content (Ex. a shared desktop or PowerPoint presentation) to the side or top of the meeting view.

  • To bring shared content back to the center of your meeting view, select the content to swap it back in.

 

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