One of the biggest issues that I run into because I'm using an ultra
wide, is when I want to share content in teams Zoom, Google Hangouts, or
in Streamy Yard or anything where you need to share your screen.
Often I need to change resolutions or I need to share just a tab, and
it's really a pain in the behind.
Well, there's an application that you can install that will.
Easily enable you to share any region of your screen in seconds.
So I'm gonna break down everything you need to know, hot and solid, get it
up and running and see it in action.
So tune in.
Hey everyone.
I'm James and previously here on the channel, I've done a few videos
on one of my favorite applications called Power Toys, specifically Fancy
Zones, which enables you to sort of specify regions on your screen.
Now, this is really nice when you're using any monitor, but especially in ultra wide
because you can set up zones where you're gonna have your code over here, you're
gonna have your browser over here, your teams or your Slack up and running over.
Now, one of the big questions I got from that video was, well, how can
I actually share one of those fancy zones when I'm on a teams call or a
Zoom call or anything where you wanna share part of your, you know, desktop?
And that is really honestly, one of the biggest things that always gets me is
I always have to change my resolution to 1920 by 10 80, and then I need to do
this, or I need to share just a tab and make sure it's the right resolution.
Well, there's an application that solves all of this that you can install
on your Windows machine in seconds.
So let's check.
This application is called Region two share.
It's completely open source billit.net, which is fantastic by Tom Englert.
I'm gonna say Tom Englert.
I hope that's your name.
Uh, that's there.
I found this last year or so, and I've been loving everything about it.
So it is completely open source.
You can get it right, uh, from, uh, the GitHub download releases.
You can browse through.
All of it works on Windows 10 or Windows 11, but I like to get it specifically.
The Microsoft store.
So if you're on the Microsoft store over here, just type in region to
share and you can easily get it.
Okay.
So what does this look like in action once you have it installed?
Well, let's take an example here of Streamy Yard Da da.
This is Streamy Yard.
I use Streamy Yard often to stream, uh, to YouTube or to, uh, Twitch.
Basically.
It's an amazing piece of software.
I love it.
I've done some videos here on the channel and there's me talking.
Hey everyone.
So I'm in this channel.
This could be teams, this could be Zoom, this could be anything.
Now, if I go and present and I share my screen, we can see that
I only have an option here to do my entire screen or a window.
So here's the Microsoft store, for example, or Power Toys
or o b s specifically, or an Edge browser tab, right?
So that, that's okay, but if I share my entire screen here,
you're gonna see everything that's going on on my, on my screen.
It's gonna be super ultra wide, which is no.
So what we wanna do is figure out how to share a specific region.
So I'm gonna go ahead and open this up and when I open up region to share
what we're gonna see over here, , if I bring it up, is this window.
So lemme go ahead and minimize a few things here.
There we go.
And this is what it looks like.
So it enables you to resize it.
And basically this is showing you the resolution here.
You can even say, give me 1920 by 10 80.
Uh, it's a newer feature.
You can say, give me, you know, seven 20 p or whatever resolution
you want, which is really nice.
Now this region here is gonna be the region that's to share.
Now it is an application, but the actual power of it is
actually sticking it in place.
So what I'm gonna do here is I have my fancy zone set up.
So let's say I wanna share this region, right?
So when I hold this down, you can see my regions on the screen.
So I could put it down here.
I could put it up here.
So I'm just gonna say I want this one here, which is 6 73 by 4 68.
Now if I bring back up my streamy yard, let's say I want my streamy yard here.
So I wanna record this little overview and for heck, let's just go
ahead and put my fancy zones there.
So, and if I'm inside of teams, zoom, slack, anything Streamy
yard, I would want to share, right?
I'm presenting, I'm on my 1920 by 10 80, but I wanna share the specific region.
So if I go and I just hit present, . If I say window and I say region to share,
that's gonna share the application.
That's not actually what I want to have happen here.
Like this is the application in general, right?
So that's not what I want to have happen.
What we wanna do is share stuff that's in that region.
So this is where it gets pretty interesting.
So let me tap it here.
I'm gonna stop sh screen sharing.
What you wanna do is hit this big play.
Boom.
Now see it's gone into this sort of sticky mode.
I can't really, I can't drag and drop it around or do anything, but I can overlay
applications on top of it and notice that there is this sort of line showing
me what's inside the region or not.
Okay, that's cool.
So if I hold this down and you see my power toys is there.
So that's really neat.
So now if I go and present share screen, I'm still gonna present a window and
I'm still gonna do region to share.
But now the application's gone in this different mode where I can't resize.
, but anything that is overlaid is the region that is being shared.
So now if I bring over this, let me just go ahead and minimize
this down a little bit here.
You can see that I am sharing specifically, Everything in this
region, which is really cool, right?
So I can share all this stuff and now if I use fancy zones again,
I can see that I'm really filling that up completely, which is nice.
And I can go ahead and make it a little bit bigger and you know,
your fancy zones just fill it up.
So this is really cool.
It's really giving us the capabilities of being able to share
anything in that specific zone.
So if you are on an ultra wide, you can dedicate a 19, 20 by 10 80, put anything
over there and boom, you're totally.
To go.
And honestly, it's just that easy, , and then you stop
sharing and now you stop sharing.
Now, if I come back over here and get rid of some of these windows, we can
see that I have a little tiny X here.
If I close out of it, it's open again.
And if I wanted to make that really, really big or start it up again, I could
click on this 1920 by 10 80 and just like that, I have a big 19, 20 by 10 80 or I
can go ahead and snap it to this region.
So that's really cool, giving you that really awesome
power to share that specific.
There you go.
In just a few minutes.
We took our entire application and shared a specific region.
Now you can do that in anything, right?
Because it's just an application window, so you could use that in O B S.
You could use it in Team Zoom, any software that you're using, and then
of course you can also share audio, which would be your system audio,
so you'd be totally good to go.
I use this all the time when I'm presenting because like I
just said, it's kind of a pain to specifically go ahead and.
Now there are some quirks though, I will say, because you know, it's
not like you, it's not creating a secondary monitor right on your machine.
So that means if you're doing presentations in PowerPoint that you're
not going to be presenting into a region.
So there are still some of those quirks out there that you need to be aware of.
But anyways, I hope you find this really useful.
I definitely do, especially when I'm doing all sorts of streaming
and presentations at work.
Uh, and if you do, uh, like this application, be sure to go over to the
GitHub, hit that star and you know, over for Tom, which is really awesome.
It's really awesome to see these types of applications being built.
Uh, and if you have any other suggestions or recommendations of
things that you are using that you're like, Hey, I found this other tool,
leave it in the comments below.
Love to see what you're using.
To share on how you're managing your windows on your ultra wides.
And if there are really cool applications, I'll be sure to
record videos on those as well.
If you like this video and you like this type of content, feel
free to give it a thumbs up.
And of course, I'll put this in a playlist of all my different
presentation tips and tricks.
And of course, that fancy zone video, which is about a five minute video
walking you through everything that I was doing with fancy zones right here.
I always hope you have the most amazing day in the entire world.
And until next time, thanks for watching.