Windows 10: Way too much space between groups in Start Menu

Hello,


I just purchased a new PC and I'm setting up my Start Menu. When I place two different groups side-by-side horizontally, there's a huge horizontal gap in between the groups. Is there any way to make the horizontal space smaller? Screenshot is at the end of this post.


In case it's relevant:

I'm using Windows 10; last updated Windows today, 6/18/2020.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 graphics card.

My monitor's resolution is 3480 x 2160. I have scaling set to 200%. However, the problem was still there when I adjusted scaling back to 100%. I tried scaling to 100%, 125%, 150% and 175%. So I don't think it's a scaling issue.


Thanks so much for any help.


Screenshot:



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Hi everyone,

I was trying to figure out how to do this, and I ran into the same grief.

So, now that I know how to do it, I thought I'd post what works for me.

When you open the Start Menu, you have two large, vertical sections.

• On the left, a list of your "Most used" programs.
• On the right, your groups of Tiles ... and the location we want to create a new group.
  
  The first tile group in this list is probably titled "Life at a glance."

A few basic things to know

• Both of these two lists in the Start Menu are vertically scrollable.
• Each tile group is separated so that each one falls below the next.
• The title for each group is left-aligned in the space between tile groups.
• If you hover your mouse pointer over the space between tile groups (or over a group's title), you'll see a little menu icon appear to the right of the title (right-aligned). It looks like two horizontal lines. In mobile webpages, it's often referred to
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If you want to change the placement of any tiles, simply drag them to where you want them.

If you want to change the order of your tile groups, simply grab the "Grab Handle," and drag the group up or down to where you want it to sit in the tiles list.

A suggestion...

If you're going to create a new group by dragging an icon from the left "Most used" list, I'd suggest scrolling the tiles list (on the right) to the very bottom first. You'll have that "New Tile Group space" immediately accessible to drop your icon onto
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Hello, and thanks for your attention.

I ran the troubleshooter, but it found no issues.

I have now posted the question to the Office forum as you suggested.

The absence of the third group of tiles in the start menu does affect much more than Microsoft Office. Today the user of the computer asked me how to start the mail program. She does not even know its name "Thunderbird". That way the computer would become unusable
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Regards