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Hi all,
The way I work is that I have Teams open on the half of my 3rd small screen (laptop).
Today I realized that recent chats pane just stay open which means that actual chat is now 1/4 of the screen.... (small slice)
Previously I had to hover over chats icon and then select which chat I want to answer.
This feature works when I zoom in A LOT (ctrl +) but it's impossible to work this way.
I tried following things:
Details:
Microsoft Teams version: 24193.1805.3040.8975
Teams Client version: 49/24080212008
Everything works fine under version: 49/24071128825
Can somebody assist please? :)
TO SAVE YOUR TIME - USE THIS FIX
Go to apps and features found the app > clicked advanced options
scroll down to the reset area and choose reset the app
this is apparently a glitch that happens sometimes
Conversations involving multiple participants, allowing collaboration and information sharing in Teams
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This happened to one of my coworkers this morning to fix it he:
went to apps and features found the app > clicked advanced options
scroll down to the reset area and choose reset the app
this is apparently a glitch that happens sometimes
I'm having the same issue. For the last 4 years mine was able to autohide as well right up until about 2 hours ago when my teams shut itself down. When I reopened it the chat list stays open and I can't get it to autohide again. I hope they fix this because it is really annoying.
Same thing happened to me, I didn't do anything different. It just stopped auto hiding the left vertical task bar. When I hover over the left side the tab would auto hide and now all of a sudden it won't auto hide. I have been crazy trying to find the fix and I have been unsuccessful. I guess it was a Teams update that we are forced to live with and I hate it.
Hello,
I just experienced this situation: I have been using Teams for 4 years. When I hover over the "Chats" icon in my left ribbon, the Chats window would open/display until I selected a chat, then the chats window would "auto-hide" (like a menu ribbon in all of the other MS Office apps). This was convenient for me because I have 1 monitor with Outlook & Teams (side-by-side) so my chat window is narrow.
Then, as of yesterday, the Chats window stays open permanently (does not auto-hide). Maybe I accidentally hit a button? Maybe there was an update that disabled that feature? I don't know. I need to find out how to "Auto-Hide" Chats window.
Mark Mazzullo
You say there isn't a "feasible built-in option" for this, but there was (for me) yesterday. This constant appearance of the chat listing occurred this morning upon opening Teams. There isn't an option to change the width of the chat list and this is incredibly inconvenient and more difficult to keep up to date in my open chat given the size of the chat window that's left if Teams isn't in a full screen.
There shouldn't be a need to request it be built in when it was literally there 1-3 days ago..