Multicols: use all vertical space before moving to a new column

Question

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How do I force TeX to completely use the 1st column?

I am using a three-columns template to create cheat sheets:

\begin{multicols}{3}
...
\end{multicols}

When there is not much text, the result is divided equally between the three columns:

I would prefer having the entire text on the left column, exploiting the entire page height, e.g.:

How do exploit the full page height for the first column with multicols?

Answer 1

See package documentation of multicol: "2.2 Not balancing the columns":

\begin{multicols*}{3}
...
\end{multicols*}