

Now, on your Zoom screen, as the person who initiated and is running the meeting, you’ll have this toolbar: When you’re ready to share the latest sales figures or your PowerPoint for the new product design with the team, it can be understandably disheartening to get this error instead! To start out, here’s the error that your colleagues are seeing: And that’s exactly how you gain control over screen sharing in a Zoom meeting even while it’s live and has a few, or a few dozen, participants. Yikes!īut as with many Zoom features, there’s a world of difference between clicking on the icon associated with a feature and the tiny upward triangle adjacent to that icon. And it’s those security features that are tripping you up because, let’s face it, you don’t want random people sharing their screen contents during a Zoom meeting if you don’t know your colleagues well. It was unquestionably the right program at the right time, and has become not only tremendously popular both socially and for business, but has gained a lot of features and security too, as needed by a top-flight program. Most everyone works in an office, so why not have a face-to-face meeting and enjoy the greater productivity too? Then 2020 came along and we are all spending less time in large social settings and more time trying to figure out the essence of what makes us productive in a work setting, even when we don’t have that work setting to rely on.Įnter Zoom.


A year ago if I would have said that we’d all be doing lots and lots of videoconferencing from our home offices, kitchens, basements or even garages, you would have scoffed, and legitimately so.
