Preview sidebar showing 2 columns of icons but I want only 1

I must be having a total brain cramp, but recently all of my multi-page pdfs have been showing as 2 columns of icons when the sidebar is showing. This makes hosting a presentation awkward when an over-head projector is connected because I can't just keep hitting the down arrow to advance the slide. Would some kind soul please enlighten as to how to force the sidebar to just show only 1 column of icons. Thanks in advance.

Answering my own question - turns out that there was a preference setting responsible for this. Setting Preview up for 2 or more columns can't be done in the regular preferences window. I edited ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Preview.plist using a preferences editor and noticed the relevent variable was set for 2 instead of 1. No idea how that happened, but after I set it to 1 it all worked as expected.

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