Text Formatting ⇒ Formatting two columns "single-spaced"

[lynnkwon]

Can you kindly see the attachment? I want to make the right column "single-spaced" (no spacings between lines) like the column on the left. how can I Latex?

Thanks so much in advance!

* Let me know if my question does not abide by "minimum example" conduct.

Here is the code:
\section{\centerline{\textcolor{midnightblue}{TECHNOLOGY SKILLS}}}
%\vspace{15pt} % Reduce space between section title and contents
\begin{multicols}{2}
\begin{itemize}
\item Statistics: SPSS, SAS, MySQL
\vspace{-5pt}
\item Evaluation/Analysis: Qualtrics, Nvivo
\vspace{-5pt}
\item Programming: JAVA, PHP
\vspace{-5pt}
\item Web Design: Dreamweaver, Flash, Actionscript, HTML, CSS
\vspace{-5pt}
\item Web Development: Javascript
\vspace{-5pt}
\item Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
\vspace{-5pt}
\item Movie Editing: After Effects, Premiere Pro
\vspace{-5pt}
\item Content Management Systems (CMS): Drupal, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
\end{itemize}
\end{multicols}
\vspace{0.10in}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Welcome to the forum!

Can you please post real code, not as an image? I cannot use an image for testing. The best would be a minimal working example.

Stefan

[nlct]

The multicols environment tries to balance the columns so that they're both the same height. This can cause some extra vertical space. You could try using \raggedcolumns which will prevent the bottom lines for each column from being aligned.

For example:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{multicol}

\begin{document}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\raggedcolumns
\begin{itemize}
\item Statistics: SPSS, SAS, MySQL
\item Evaluation/Analysis: Qualtrics, Nvivo
\item Programming: JAVA, PHP
\item Web Design: Dreamweaver, Flash, Actionscript, HTML, CSS
\item Web Development: Javascript
\item Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
\item Movie Editing: After Effects, Premiere Pro
\item Content Management Systems (CMS): Drupal, Adobe Experience
Manager (AEM)
\end{itemize}
\end{multicols}
\end{document}

You might also want to consider changing (using \setlength) the list parameters (\itemsep, \topsep and \parsep) to adjust the space between items instead of manually using \vspace.

Regards
Nicola Talbot