{"id":170700,"date":"2021-02-04T13:24:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T10:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-to-hide-the-sidebar-in-microsoft-teams\/"},"modified":"2021-02-04T13:24:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T10:24:28","slug":"how-to-hide-the-sidebar-in-microsoft-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-to-hide-the-sidebar-in-microsoft-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"#How to Hide the Sidebar in Microsoft Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;#How to Hide the Sidebar in Microsoft Teams&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-706575\">\n<div class=\"entry-content e-content\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-672610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/stock-lede-microsoft-teams.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft Teams Logo\" width=\"650\" height=\"300\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The sidebar that shows your teams and chats in Microsoft Teams can be hidden when you don\u2019t need it. Microsoft has made changing this setting very unintuitive, but it\u2019s easy once you know where it\u2019s hiding.<\/p>\n<p>Having a sidebar or navigation pane on the left side of an <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> is perfectly normal\u2014almost every email client has one, for example\u2014and many apps give you the option to toggle it on or off. Microsoft Teams is no exception, but for some reason, the company made the toggle hard to find, and you can\u2019t toggle the sidebar on and off if you have a chat open.<\/p>\n<p>This basically means that you can toggle the sidebar on and off when you have a tab open in a channel, as long as it\u2019s not the \u201cPosts\u201d channel. You can\u2019t toggle the sidebar on and off if you\u2019re in a chat.<\/p>\n<p>To toggle the sidebar, open a tab in a Teams channel and click the two diagonal arrows found to the right of the tabs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-706576 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1-Expand.png\" alt=\"The toggle option to hide the sidebar.\" width=\"613\" height=\"140\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This will hide the sidebar. To show it again, click the diagonal arrows again.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-706577 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2-Contract.png\" alt=\"The toggle option to show the sidebar.\" width=\"639\" height=\"148\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A clue to Microsoft\u2019s thinking is that if you hover over the diagonal arrows, the tooltip reads \u201cExpand Tab\u201d if the sidebar is visible, or \u201cCollapse Tab\u201d if the sidebar isn\u2019t visible. Clearly, the design team was thinking more about giving extra screen space for the tab you\u2019re looking at, rather than letting you hide the toolbar just because you don\u2019t want to see it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><br \/>\n<!-- .entry-footer --><\/div>\n<p><script>\n setTimeout(function(){\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s) } (window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n   fbq('init', '335401813750447');\n   fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  },3000);\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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