KrisM Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 My keynote legend needs to have 2 columns to fit on my sheet. When I pick 2 columns for the legend, the right column is much bigger then the left column. I see no way to control this. Is there a way? 1 Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 If you select the legend you should see two blue reshape handled at the top. Those control the widths of the two columns. At least in VW2021. Please update you profile to include your VW version, and operating system version. It makes it easier to know if we are answering the right question 1 Quote Link to comment
KrisM Posted July 20, 2021 Author Share Posted July 20, 2021 The column width is fine. The height or number of rows in each column is the problem. For example, if my legend has 60 rows with one column, if I click on two columns, the left column will have 20 rows and the right column 40 rows. VW 2021 SP 4 WIN 10 Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 Based on some quick tests, I don't see a way to control the number of items in each column. In my test file it looks like VW tries to make the height of each column as similar as possible and if different notes have different heights, each column will end up with a different number of items in each column. Can you send us a sketch of what you would like to see and maybe someone has an option for you. Quote Link to comment
KrisM Posted July 20, 2021 Author Share Posted July 20, 2021 Here's the legend. I can see what it's doing now. There are 11 items in the left column and 10 in the right column. So VW has tried to even out the number of items in each column but has paid no attention as to the content of each item. if you could edit the height of the legend, that would help. Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 What happens if you go to three columns and then back to two? Quote Link to comment
KrisM Posted July 20, 2021 Author Share Posted July 20, 2021 Tried that. Tried 2,3,4 columns. VW will assign the same number of items to each column or as close as it can. This does not suit the actual content size of the items. Quote Link to comment
line-weight Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 (edited) I've come up against this in the past, and just had to live with it (ie, columns of unequal height). It puts the same number of items in each column, rather than trying to even out the overall column height. Sometimes messing with the number of columns can make it less bad, and sometimes I resort to a trial and error type approach. It's not ideal. (below is a screenshot of a drawing as issued) Edited July 20, 2021 by line-weight Quote Link to comment
Tom W. Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 @KrisM does enabling 'Break Note Text Across Columns' in the OIP make any difference? Quote Link to comment
KrisM Posted July 20, 2021 Author Share Posted July 20, 2021 That breaks some item text across columns so I would say that it doesn't work.. My workaround for two columns was to make a copy of the legend and put a blank rectangle over the part of the legends I didn't want to hide. It works but it's not something I think I should have to do. Quote Link to comment
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