The working from home thread: tips and advice

There was some chat that they (superwide monitors) have a bit of an issue when it comes to sharing screen on team's or zoom just as an fyi

Similar with a standard 4K monitor. Most people I share screens with are on a laptop so my 4K monitor content on their shitty little 1920x1080 is unreadable. If I share my whole screen I have to faff around to make everything 3x the size so they can at least try to read it, or mess up everything by temporarily changing the scaling options.

The workaround (which works for superwide monitors too) is to use Picture-In-Picture or P-By-P and pretend you have a second monitor that's only 1920x1080 and share that.

I do exactly this for my Webex calls. Also nice that I can have stuff on the rest of my monitor that I'm not sharing (although I minimise the non-work stuff just in case) which I can drag on/off the extra PiP screen as necessary. And I don't have to resize anything or faff with scaling options.

Of course, you need a second output from the computer/laptop, a spare input on the monitor, and for the monitor to have PiP/PbP functionality (which most modern monitors will have). Also having it in a non-fiddly setup is important (it's just a couple of button presses on my monitor's remote) having to do it via a on screen menu would probably be a ball ache.