Question About Expanding Clips

I inadvertently condensed the bars of clips that I'm using for a project that appear in the lower right panel. How do I re-expand them?

Ann,
Thanks for the quick response unfortunately it didn't do the trick. Obviously, I'm not explaining the problem well. As I am creating a finished video I'm moving imported clips into the right bottom panel. These are blocks of colored-coded clips that I can cut, expand, move as I wish. Somehow, I hit something that condensed these to much smaller blocks that I'm not able to work with. I hope I'm getting to the problem. Thanks.

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