Dorico keyboard squashed and stretched

I’m using Dorico 5. I have two monitors on my computer, one in the usual horizontal orientation, the other vertical. I usually display Dorico in the vertical one because I can see a full page (and sometimes more) of music. Yeah, Dorico isn’t made for the vertical screen, so I put up with some annoyances. One of them is when I select a note Dorico insists the window be a bit wider than the monitor, which means the vertical scroll can be below the horizontal monitor. Another is that the respell buttons aren’t visible while in the vertical monitor. While fixing these would be nice, that’s not my reason for writing.

This is: When I use the keyboard in the bottom panel while in Write it can look rather nice on the vertical monitor (showing a bit more than 3 octaves), but then have fat keys when I need to shift to the horizontal monitor. Even worse, when it shows normal size keys in the horizontal monitor it shows skinny keys in the vertical monitor, showing about 7 octaves. I use the keyboard because the keys are a bigger target than the staff during note entry. The skinny keys make that harder.

A couple captured images. In the horizontal:

In the vertical.

In both monitors I clicked on the window button to make it full screen. My only action was to make Dorico full screen in one monitor, then full screen in the other. Both monitors are about 1900x900 pixels.

Is there a way to reset the width of the keys in the keyboard?

You might be referring to using the Keyboard range selector?

which determines the range (number of keys) you wish to have.

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