Google Docs is getting tabs to help with organization and finding information in lengthy documents. Although it might take a few weeks to emerge, the functionality, which was first revealed in April, is now progressively being made available to all Google Workspace users as well as personal Google accounts.
“You can now use tabs to draft and build content in a way that makes it possible for you to find what you’re looking for quickly and stay on task,” Google announced in its latest Workspace update. “Plus, readers can navigate through your document with ease and focus on sections that matter most to them.”
In the Gdocs desktop web editor, tabs can be opened by clicking the bullet-point sign in the upper-left corner of the document screen. Hovering over the icon that was once labeled as “show document outline” will now display “Show tabs & outlines” and provide users with the ability to add and manage multiple tabs, including subtabs to create customisable categories. Google proposes, for instance, that users make a “budget” tab with subtabs for particular costs like transportation and meals.
Up to three levels of nested subtabs can be added using this feature. To create a subtab, drag a tab into another tab to make it automatically become a subtab, or choose “Add subtab” from the tab settings menu. To help users immediately recognize each tab and subtab, users can give each one a unique label and emoji. When a document has two or more tabs, the tab navigation menu will open by default. Users can click the three dots next to each tab to share links to individual tabs.
Renaming, copying, and deleting tabs are among the tab editing features that are exclusive to people with editor access to the document. In suggestion mode, tabs can be viewed and navigated but not changed otherwise.
