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As of yesterday, the display of my teams will no longer collapse the left side panel. I've tried settings, restarting the app, and restarting the computer. It used to open after selecting one of the options next to it, like chat or teams and then it would automatically close after I selected what I wanted from those options. How do I get it to collapse again?
Additional chat-related features and issues within Microsoft Teams for business
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It has started happening AGAIN! the only temp fix is to reset Teams. How hard can it be to squish this bug?
Teams 25044.2208.3471.2155.
One of my smart users realized that if she set her zoom in Teams to 115%, the left pane collapses when you drag the drag any side border to narrow the width of the Teams app enough, and when expanded the left pane reappears.
This worked brilliantly. I was so frustrated how it scrunched up the main chat threads, and I didn't want to enlarge the window at all. Setting it to 115% not only collapsed it, but changed it to it only appearing when the mouse is over. The window is still the same size, and because it shrunk things down when it was stuck, the size increase doesn't actually change from how it used to be!
I'm also finding that resetting teams only fixes this short-term. The next day it was broken again.
I found the longterm fix was to uninstall teams and then install something else.
My entire organization is going to fix these persistent issues that keep happening by switching to different platforms completely. Good work Microsoft! Lmao
My users are also starting to complain about this issue. Alot of them don't like using teams full maximized screen so when they make the teams smaller, it usually auto hides the chat bar on the left side.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it!