Hi SharePoint Experts, I am a business guy that is trying to develop my department's SharePoint Online site. I understand the benefits, and know the basics of the "Quick Launch menu" links (navigation specific to the site) and top "Navigation Menu Bar" links (global navigation visible across all site pages). I want to keep my Navigation Menu Bar across the top (which I built like a "mega menu," to enable users to jump from site to site). However, on some of my SPO sub sites, I want the ability to completely hide the left side Quick Launch in an effort to maximize my page's horizontal real estate. If I go to Site Settings --> Navigation Elements --> Uncheck the box for "Enable Quick Launch"......then it removes all of the quick launch links on the sub site with the exception of Site Contents. And given that site contents still shows (despite disabling quick launch), my overall page layout did not shift to the left to cover where the Quick Launch used to be. Note, I am doing this all out-of-the-box. I am not a code writer and would HUGELY appreciate if you could provide a recommendation for me to 1) completely hide the Quick Launch, 2) have my site layout shift left and use the full horizontal screen, and 3) allow for my Global Navigation Launch to be unaffected. Thank you in advance!Doug Doerhoff

Have you tried to "Change the Look"? Some pages disable the quick launch & only leave the top menu. Site Settings > Change the Look.

Best way to hide the vertical menu is just by injecting some CSS in your site (you will need a developer for this) that hides the menu...if you only need this for some specific pages, you can insert a script editor webpart in the page and add the CSS. Bear in mind that this is going to work for classic wiki pages...for modern pages, you don't have a script editor WebPart and you have to use one created by the community that works as a script editor WebPart

Below setting worked for me for removing Quick link left Navigation Sidebar. 1. Goto:Site Setting-> Navigation ->Select Managed Navigation under Globar and Current Navigation 2. Create Term Set if asked: Managed Navigation: Term Set

The only way I have been able to achieve this so far is..1) Delete all the menu items in the "Current Navigation" container.or2) Set the "Target Audience" on each item to a SharePoint group that is empty.

Hi,we have mutiple option to impement the Global Navigation 1) You can use Global Navigation Under (Site Setting--> Navigation Setting) 2) Term Store, (Follow this linke https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3144166/implement-global-navigation-across-multiple-site-collections-through-managed-navigation-in-sharepoint-server-2013) Follow Steps to Configure Global Navigation 1) Go to Perent Site 2) Go to Site setting --> Navigation Setting3) under Navigation Setting Select Structural Navigation4) Check box on "Show Subsites"5) Check the Attachment for more information 6) Click ok7) Now Go To SubSite and follow Step 28) This time you have to Select "Display the same navigation items as the parent site" Under Global Navigation (This will maintain Same Navigation what we have in Parent Site Let me know if this will helps or not. BestSunit Patil Skype ID: Sunitonline

Anonymous

May 16, 2017

Removing the Quick Launch & Keeping the Global Navigation Bar in SP Online to max Screen Real Estate

Hi SharePoint Experts,

I am a business guy that is trying to develop my department's SharePoint Online site. I understand the benefits, and know the basics of the "Quick Launch menu" links (navigation specific to the site) and top "Navigation Menu Bar" links (global navigation visible across all site pages).

I want to keep my Navigation Menu Bar across the top (which I built like a "mega menu," to enable users to jump from site to site). However, on some of my SPO sub sites, I want the ability to completely hide the left side Quick Launch in an effort to maximize my page's horizontal real estate.

If I go to Site Settings --> Navigation Elements --> Uncheck the box for "Enable Quick Launch"......then it removes all of the quick launch links on the sub site with the exception of Site Contents. And given that site contents still shows (despite disabling quick launch), my overall page layout did not shift to the left to cover where the Quick Launch used to be.

Note, I am doing this all out-of-the-box. I am not a code writer and would HUGELY appreciate if you could provide a recommendation for me to 1) completely hide the Quick Launch, 2) have my site layout shift left and use the full horizontal screen, and 3) allow for my Global Navigation Launch to be unaffected.

Thank you in advance!

Doug Doerhoff

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DRMonkey
Copper Contributor
Jun 03, 2021
The only way I have been able to achieve this so far is..
1) Delete all the menu items in the "Current Navigation" container.
or
2) Set the "Target Audience" on each item to a SharePoint group that is empty.
- ZX_81
  Copper Contributor
  Jul 22, 2021
  YAY!
  Thanks, the only thing that's worked so far....
Tech NBC
Copper Contributor
May 16, 2018
Below setting worked for me for removing Quick link left Navigation Sidebar.

1. Goto:
Site Setting-> Navigation ->Select Managed Navigation under Globar and Current Navigation

2. Create Term Set if asked: Managed Navigation: Term Set
- AnupaNielsen
  Copper Contributor
  Jan 09, 2019
  This did not work - it still leaves the "Site Content" on the left and so you are still remaining with that consuming white space on the left side of the page. It really seems the only option is to have a developer use CSS etc like some other posts have explained. That's pretty disheartening that something so easy, that clearly lots of folks want to do, should be so non-intuitive and can't be done with a few clicks.
N Vinodh
Copper Contributor
May 19, 2017
Please follow my blog using this URL http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/blogs/navigation-terms-in-sharepoint

Regards
Vinod
Sharepoint developer
- Paul Martello
  Brass Contributor
  Nov 28, 2017
  Navigate to site settings -> Under look and feel -> click Navigation.
  
  Navigation not visible. I am building a communication site.
Sunit Patil
Brass Contributor
May 16, 2017
Hi,
we have mutiple option to impement the Global Navigation

1) You can use Global Navigation Under (Site Setting--> Navigation Setting)
2) Term Store, (Follow this linke https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3144166/implement-global-navigation-across-multiple-site-collections-through-managed-navigation-in-sharepoint-server-2013)

Follow Steps to Configure Global Navigation
1) Go to Perent Site
2) Go to Site setting --> Navigation Setting
3) under Navigation Setting Select Structural Navigation
4) Check box on "Show Subsites"
5) Check the Attachment for more information
6) Click ok
7) Now Go To SubSite and follow Step 2
8) This time you have to Select "Display the same navigation items as the parent site" Under Global Navigation (This will maintain Same Navigation what we have in Parent Site

Let me know if this will helps or not.

Best
Sunit Patil
Skype ID: Sunitonline
- Paul Martello
  Brass Contributor
  Nov 28, 2017
  I have tried to do this a million times and it will not work. Don't you have to activate SharePoint Server Publishing first? I have tried this, but cannot.
- Anonymous
  May 16, 2017
  Hi Sunit Patil,
  
  Thanks for the quick response. Are the instructions you provided pertinent to Office 365? Ex. I do not have what you call as "Navigation Settings".....instead I have "Navigation Elements" within my site settings.
  
  Also, my Global Navigation is working fine, I just want to hide the Quick Launch on some pages to expand the horizontal site layout.
  
  Thanks,
  Doug
  - Ahewaz Pardhan
    Copper Contributor
    May 16, 2017
    Have you tried to "Change the Look"? Some pages disable the quick launch & only leave the top menu. Site Settings > Change the Look.

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