Why does the format of the list keep changing and how do I keep it as one thing?

So I am making lists within lists for my task manager, and something I keep running into is the lists going from two separate lists (The orange one) which is what I want; to a grid, this usually happens when I reopen the coding and when I change it back it’s starting to break things. Why is it doing this and how can I fix it and only keep it as the two separate lists?

It won’t let me ad the screenshots of the lists so I’ll try my best to explain them

The one I referred to as “The orange one” is a List with two items in it, those two items are lists that both have “t1, t2, t3, t4” (They’re placeholder names")

This changes to a grid with two columns and four rows going from A to D with the list contents in their respective areas.

I need to know how to keep the lists from turning into a grid.

To force the “orange” version, simply press the :settings_icon: button with shift pressed and uncheck “Table support”:
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This should revert to the old view.


Before:

After:


You’re welcome!

Also, correction here - “rows” are from top-to-bottom, and “columns” are from left-right. So technically, this table has FOUR columns and TWO rows!

The reason why this happens, is because the most common use for lists in lists is tables.

I guess the OP’s immediate problem has been solved, but I want to make sure it’s clear that the list itself doesn’t change between two formats, only the way it’s presented visually in variable watchers and speech balloons.

Besides turning off table representation altogether, you can control the format of a particular list display by right-clicking or control-clicking on the border of the list (not a list item, not the border of the speech balloon or variable watcher) and selecting “list view” or “table view” as desired. In the case of a variable watcher, it will remember which view you want as long as the value of the variable is the same list. So, for example, if you want to start over with an empty list, say
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rather than
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because the latter changes the value of the variable to a new list, whereas the former keeps the existing list but removes all its items.