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Reply Mon 21 Nov 2011, 16:23Delegate Rachmah said...

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Swimlane

How do you arrange the swimlane column to be vertically even?

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Reply Fri 25 Nov 2011, 10:28Trainer Simon said...

RE: Swimlane

Hi Rachmah,

Thank you for your question and welcome to the forum.

If you mean the width of the swimlanes then open the Size and Position Task Pane and select all the columns and then enter the width into the Width field in the task pane. It seems to do it on all apart from the first one selected which could be done manually.

I hope this answers your question.

Regards

Simon

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