Unable to collapse the left side panel in teams anymore

Anonymous
2024-08-16T14:59:31+00:00

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?

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-09-05T18:21:50+00:00

    This began happening to me very recently, as well. I see a lot of frustration on this, understandably. Hoping Microsoft's next update will fix this issue and allow the column to be collapsable - I think with it expanded, it makes things very busy/noisy and causes some overwhelm. Not to mention the excess real estate on the screen, as mentioned prior.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-09-05T18:39:49+00:00

    Totally agree!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-09-05T19:30:59+00:00

    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!

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-09-06T09:43:08+00:00

    I can "fix" the issue by zooming to 110% but the text is now bigger

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-09-06T12:58:18+00:00

    Either the testing team at MSoft sucks or they don't have one and let developers test.

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