Hi everyone,
Here’s another IT question that I could just google but asking you guys is better.
Earlier I was in a teams call and was trying to share a PowerPoint presentation. It wouldn’t happen. I’m pretty new to Teams so was wondering why. 
Share as in upload the doc? May be too large a file, may be sharing is disabled in the hosts settings?
I can share my screen normally though. Last week I shared the same presentation so it shouldn’t be a size issue, however the file was pre-saved to the meeting invite, so I’m wondering if I shared that rather than the version on my desktop?
Have you got one drive for business?
That stops you sharing files in a chat if you haven’t
I’ve had this a few times Laefers. It stops allowing me to share it as a screen when it’s already in ‘Presentation’ mode, always works if it’s in edit mode and then I put it in presentation mode once my screen is being shared
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Or if you were doing screen share it treats all your open windows as different screens
I do
Ah the old clicking about method. Works every time 
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I think I tried both ways to be honest but I will give this another go and see if that’s the issue. To be honest it is most likely that I’m doing something very basically dumb.
Nah, I think there’s a bug there.
oh so just sharing the presentation on your screen rather than sharing the file?
When you start a screen share you have the option to share your screen (which will show anything that you bring up on that screen) or share a program (which will lock the share to that)
Also powerpoint can be an arsehole for screensharing so always best to be plugged into a second monitor and dump powerpoint on that, and share that so it isn’t trying to run the meeting and the ppt presentation on the same screen (if you have a 2nd screen)
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Just got told off on a teams meeting for being on my phone while on a thread about teams on dis
Meta
Don’t worry. I’ve re angled my camera
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Hmm. Well I was trying to share the window. Just tried again and it doesn’t work in even when not in full screen mode. Under ‘PowerPoint’ it says not files available’ - don’t know if that is hinting at an issue.
They might have disabled your presenting rights after your stand up routine
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Hahaha it is quite possible 
Laelfy has been no platformed
I’d try sharing the desktop and bringing the presentation up. See if that works
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Yep just done it and it works, so that’s a solution at least. Just confused how o was sharing the presentation last week and moving the slides via clicking the screen - which I can’t do now.
Thanks everyone for your suggestion