I have an MDI MFC application which has a menu at the top. Nothing particularly unusual about that, but for some reason my application seems to have a vertical spacing about 30%-40% bigger than "normal" on the drop down menus (when compared with Visual Studio itself).

I've looked thru the options for CMenu, CMFCMenuBar, CMFCVisualManager, but can't seem to find anything to explain why my menu has such a large vertical spacing between options, nor how to change it.

ScreenGrab_VisualStudioMenu.jpg

Any suggestions?