Opening the LPM and widening columns

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First, you'll need to know how to access the pallet.

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It can be found in the home tab under the layers panel.

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It's the biggest icon there.

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If you prefer the keyboard,

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you can simply type in layer on the command line or it's alias

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the layer properties manager palette should appear on your screen,

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adjust the size to your preference, making sure all of the columns appear.

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We're going to go through everything in the palette.

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But I'd like to start with the column width. I'm using a default installation

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and as such, the columns are too condensed for my taste.

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Let's look at some different ways we can change how they look.

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You can do one column at a time. If you like

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put your mouse cursor over the separator between name and the on column next to it

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to press and hold your mouse key to drag it back and forth

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or just double click and it will expand the name

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column to the size of its longest layer name.

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You can do this with any column in the pallet.

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If you use the double click method,

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be careful to make sure that you're hovering on the separator

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with the double arrow icon showing

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if you double click within a header itself,

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you'll be resorting the layer list per that column.

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If you want to do them all though,

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there's a couple of faster ways this time hover over any column title

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and right click to call up the pop up menu from here. You can turn columns on or off.

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But what we're looking for are the tools at the bottom.

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here.

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You'll find some tools to help you display the columns in a more readable format.

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There are two groups

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maximize and optimize

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you can do just the one you clicked on or all at once.

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What's the difference

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optimize

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changes the width of all columns to fit the content in each column.

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Click on,

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optimize all and you'll see the column widths change based on their content.

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Notice the on frieze and lock headers are still truncated,

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right? Click again on a column header

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this time, click on, maximize all

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maximize changes the width of the select column to fit the

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column header and the data that's contained in the column.

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You should now see each column at least as wide as its header and possibly wider.

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If its content is wider,

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we'll keep all of the columns maximized.

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In practice, this may make the entire palette too wide for you.