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Screen sharing

Share your screen during meetings to facilitate brainstorming, collaboration, and training.

Work together anywhere with screen sharing software

Look at content collectively, even when you’re apart, simply by sharing your screen on any device during a Teams call or meeting.

Choose what you share

Show others your entire desktop or just one thing, like a browser window, app, or presentation.

Improve communication

Answer a question or clarify a point by sharing your screen, so everyone can see the same content.

Collaborate more effectively

Increase teamwork, focus, and understanding by letting anyone share their screen in meetings.

Share from any device

Use your computer, tablet, or phone to share your screen from anywhere.

Learn what you can do with screen sharing software

Explore the features and benefits of sharing your screen in Microsoft Teams, whether you’re training someone, brainstorming, or presenting.

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Share your sound—or not

Choose whether to turn off your device’s sounds while you’re sharing your screen so others don’t hear notifications, or turn sound on during a video.

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Seamlessly transition between presenters

Instantly present your slides as co-presenter, so you don’t have to ask someone else to advance to the next slide.

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Let others browse through your slides

Enable attendees to interact with content like hyperlinks and videos, and allow attendees to consume the content at their own pace.

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Seamlessly integrate camera

Cameo allows you to seamlessly integrate your Teams camera feed into your presentation, letting you customize how and where you want to appear on your slides. Learn more.

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Brainstorm together on a digital whiteboard

Collaborate in real time on a digital canvas where you can write, draw, and add images and tables. It’s automatically saved for easy reference later.

A presentation being edited in real time by members of a Teams video call.

Draw on slides or use a laser pointer

Emphasize part of a PowerPoint slide by using a virtual laser pointer, highlighter, or pen. Erase part or all of your “ink” anytime.

Collaborative annotations being given on content being shared by a presenter of a Teams call.

Collaborate on content shared on screen

Collaborate real time on content shared by the presenter on screen. Anyone in the meeting can start adding text, sticky notes, reactions, or digital ink.

Share your sound—or not

Choose whether to turn off your device’s sounds while you’re sharing your screen so others don’t hear notifications, or turn sound on during a video.

Seamlessly transition between presenters

Instantly present your slides as co-presenter, so you don’t have to ask someone else to advance to the next slide.

Let others browse through your slides

Enable attendees to interact with content like hyperlinks and videos, and allow attendees to consume the content at their own pace.

Seamlessly integrate camera

Cameo allows you to seamlessly integrate your Teams camera feed into your presentation, letting you customize how and where you want to appear on your slides. Learn more.

Brainstorm together on a digital whiteboard

Collaborate in real time on a digital canvas where you can write, draw, and add images and tables. It’s automatically saved for easy reference later.

Draw on slides or use a laser pointer

Emphasize part of a PowerPoint slide by using a virtual laser pointer, highlighter, or pen. Erase part or all of your “ink” anytime.

Collaborate on content shared on screen

Collaborate real time on content shared by the presenter on screen. Anyone in the meeting can start adding text, sticky notes, reactions, or digital ink.

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Frequently asked questions

Screen sharing is when you use an app to allow other people to see what’s on your device’s screen, whether you’re using a phone, tablet, or computer. Show everything on your screen or just one part of it, such as a specific file or window.

Screen sharing gives everyone a real-time look at the same thing without needing to email it, so it’s easier to understand what someone is referring to. Screen sharing can make it easier to effectively train a new employee, brainstorm, provide IT assistance or customer support, give a webinar, or make a presentation.

With more people working remotely, sharing your screen can help connect people and increase participation no matter where you are. Screen sharing can help make meetings more productive and improve communication.

An app with screen sharing built in, like Microsoft Teams, makes it easy to get everything done in one place during a chat or online meeting. People can see and work on files at the same time to get things done faster.

In Microsoft Teams, a red outline appears around the window or application you are currently sharing, so you know what is and isn’t visible.