I posted this same note under a topic called "Uneven columns," thinking it was to do with Span Columns. I realized later that it was referring to text frame columns. I am reposting here; please excuse the redundancy.

I run into this over and over and over again when typesetting business text books. Sometimes bullet items are long and sometimes short. The way columns work now, I'm forced to have some of the longer bullet text break to two lines even though, if i could adjust the column widths and have better control over the gutter, there would be ample room for this bullet text to stay on one line. This would be a great help in some layouts where that one double line of bullet text screws with the page ending and forces one line of bullets to the next page. I hope someone takes this suggestion seriously! It would be much appreciated.