Engage your audience with presenter modes in Microsoft Teams

Meeting participants tend to be more focused and have a better experience when they see a presenter along with a presentation. An interactive presenter also helps guide an audience along with visual cues while reducing information overload.

By using a presenter mode such as Standout, Side-by-side, or Reporter in a Teams meeting instead of sharing screen or window content only, you become a more engaging and integral part of your presentation.

The following examples show how each presenter mode appears to an audience:

Standout presenter mode


Standout presenter mode


Side-by-side presenter mode


Reporter presenter mode

Use a presenter mode

Teams share screen icon

  1. After your meeting starts, at the upper-right corner of Teams, select Share content

Presenter mode share tray

to choose a Presenter mode and other options.

Note: Using interactive presenter modes with PowerPoint Live will soon be available.

To make the toolbar appear again, place your pointer at the top edge of the screen where it first appeared.

Presenter toolbar

Presenter toolbar

Chat unpin icon

Tip: To keep the toolbar on your screen, make it appear again, hover over it, and then select Pin toolbar

at the upper-right corner. To unpin, select it again.

Meeting controls

Note: Presenter mode customization is available as part of the public preview program and might undergo further changes before being released publicly. To get access to this and other upcoming features, switch to Teams public preview.

Presenter modes also allow presenters to customize how their content will be oriented on screen and adjust the size of the video to better fit the presentation.

Customize video display

1. Use the Position buttons in the preview window to direct where videos will appear in relation to the content.

Image showing the position buttons at the top of the meeting screen.

2. Enlarge or reduce video size using the Size slider. Slide the circle to the left to reduce the size of a video, or to the right to enlarge the size of a video.

Image showing the size slider at the top of the page in presenter mode.

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