This completely changes how I'm gonna be using Google docs. The fact that searching in a document searches through all the tabs makes it so much better too.
@@matttechtidbits where do you find the option to just search the current tab? seems like it automatically searches all with no way to do just one tab, which is nice sometimes but not great other times.
@@atms04 Hey there, yes it was that you could only do one tab, but now you can search all! You have to go to "find and replace" which is CTRL+H or ⌘ + Shift + h on Mac, then you have the option to Search "all tabs" or "this tab"!
Just got this today and I'm loving it. I've felt for a while that Google has a "missing middle" when it comes to notes, between a Keep note and a full on document, that you couldn't really structure in the same way as a OneNote notebook for example. I use the outline, and headers, and smart chips and so on, but that can be a bit fiddly. This absolutely fills in that missing middle. Game changer for me. I'll no longer be idly thinking about trying other note taking programs.
Were you able to add tabs to chapters already written? I have 60 pages written and I'm having to scroll. When I add a tab, it adds a blank page. I can't figure this out.
@@juls_7182 No, new tabs are blank and you'd have to copy text into them. I don't think I'll be using these for actual drafts though, only for notes. For drafts I use Headers styles for chapters and they show up in the document outline and let me navigate quickly.
What a helpful feature! I hope I can put it to good use. It has so much potential for a lot of people writing on the same document. Now I can just assign each of my teammates at school one tab and then we just compile everything on a different "final tab" for presentation with a different format, so we don't mess up each other's parts without having to manage two or more documents at a time!
This is going to help me so much. I use Google Classroom and its been an endless challange for my adult students to find everything. It looks like this is going to aleviate that problem! Thanks for this video, I was wondering how to handle the Table of Contents for the entire document!
Hey there, I'm able to move them at least! I have been able to drag them up above the tab they were in to get them out of the subtab. Then dragging one back on a tab makes it into the subtab.
@@meiling5929 hey great question and I made a video for printing, which you should be able to “print” to PDF. Printing Document Tabs ruclips.net/video/h3_nSATjxis/видео.html Quick instruction to get all tabs printed: you press the 3 dots in Google Drive (not in docs) and then go to quick view, then print from there. Hope that helps!
I may have missed it - but is it possible to move a page from 1 tab to a different tab. I would like to go back and add tabs to existing documents. Thank you
Hey there, Just checking, like you have, say 3 tabs and you want to move a tab into a subtab? Or more so you have a pre-tabs document and want pages to automatically change to tabs? If the first of organizing already created tabs, you can drag and drop. It seems the limit is you can have Tabs, Subtabs, and Sub-Subtabs (aka 3 levels). If you are asking about a document without tabs to create tabs based on page breaks or headers, unfortunately you cannot just press a button to "convert" them. What I've done is used CTRL+X to Cut (deletes texts but copies to clipboard) what I want into a new tab, create the new tab and then paste (CTRL+V) the values there. Hopefully there will be an option to automatically convert like Header 1,2,3 to Tabs. It would save a lot of time re-organizing! Hopefully answered your question, let me know if I totally missed what you were asking! 😅
Hi, great question! I'm hoping it will but currently you cannot share specific tabs only. If you share (view, comment, edit) it is true for all tabs (like it was before). I am hoping it will change to be more similar with sheets where you can adjust and "protect" ranges but currently not an option.
Hey thank you for the comment! I was pretty happy how those turned out! And I use Canva for my graphics / slides, and they have "frames" which allows you to add videos /photos / gifs into them. So I did a phone screen record, then added that inside their phone frame. The iPad background was an image and I just used a rectangle frame inside it to get that set. I used Adobe Premiere for my video editing, which allowed me to make a cleaner cut of the phone/iPad outline within it.
Not very nice. The tabs in general should have been optional or they should allow easier use of the headings outline. Not everybody needs tabs and especially not everybody needs separate docs inside docs. Now it's floating there requiring you to think about what tab you are on and makes it much more complicated to use
That’s fair. And yeah I agree having the option to toggle between the two for cases like that. It’s silly that this is the option atm, but may be helpful if you are doing a long project, you can hide the element for the button by holding shift > right clicking > inspect, then find the div class for the button and hide it. It’ll highlight the button but it’s the one with “miniChapterSwitcherCore” You’d have to do this every time you refresh and open a doc. So not a great method but again if you are working on a project for a good chunk of time, may help out
Hey that's a great question. I was messing around on mobile and do not see the option to add like you mentioned. So it seems like it isn't available for mobile devices at this point...Hopefully soon it'll be added!
Hey that’s an excellent question. I’ve been playing around more and found that both printing and exporting inside docs/ the tab ONLY does the tab. If you press the 3 dots in Google Drive, then you can print or export the entire doc with every tab. It does change the formatting slightly to include a page for each tab name, then whatever is on that tab.
Hey there, Great question. From my testing, it is sharing the entire document or none of it at this point. That would be a really nice option to have! Even changing permissions like in Google Sheets to have certain Tabs be "view only" to some users could have a use as well. Hopefully an update sometime!
@@matttechtidbits I wondered this also. I wanted to make a doc for my my 10 week course. And have a tab for each day, and then just unlock the tab as needed
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This completely changes how I'm gonna be using Google docs. The fact that searching in a document searches through all the tabs makes it so much better too.
Yeah agreed! I should have covered that in the video. The search/ find and replace works as I hoped where you can search a tab or all tabs!
@@matttechtidbits where do you find the option to just search the current tab? seems like it automatically searches all with no way to do just one tab, which is nice sometimes but not great other times.
@@atms04 Hey there, yes it was that you could only do one tab, but now you can search all! You have to go to "find and replace" which is CTRL+H or ⌘ + Shift + h
on Mac, then you have the option to Search "all tabs" or "this tab"!
Just got this today and I'm loving it. I've felt for a while that Google has a "missing middle" when it comes to notes, between a Keep note and a full on document, that you couldn't really structure in the same way as a OneNote notebook for example. I use the outline, and headers, and smart chips and so on, but that can be a bit fiddly. This absolutely fills in that missing middle. Game changer for me. I'll no longer be idly thinking about trying other note taking programs.
Finally, we get Notion features in Google Docs
As a writer that has 10,000 words of lore on one sloppy document, this video is a godsend, good sir.
I'm also a writer and this is an absolute game changer for my notes for books. Really like it so far.
Were you able to add tabs to chapters already written? I have 60 pages written and I'm having to scroll. When I add a tab, it adds a blank page. I can't figure this out.
@@juls_7182 No, new tabs are blank and you'd have to copy text into them.
I don't think I'll be using these for actual drafts though, only for notes. For drafts I use Headers styles for chapters and they show up in the document outline and let me navigate quickly.
What a helpful feature! I hope I can put it to good use. It has so much potential for a lot of people writing on the same document. Now I can just assign each of my teammates at school one tab and then we just compile everything on a different "final tab" for presentation with a different format, so we don't mess up each other's parts without having to manage two or more documents at a time!
This is going to help me so much. I use Google Classroom and its been an endless challange for my adult students to find everything. It looks like this is going to aleviate that problem!
Thanks for this video, I was wondering how to handle the Table of Contents for the entire document!
Yeah it’s a great update! And glad that helped with table of contents, hopefully soon we can automatically do them all without these additional steps!
I just switched to take my notes on Google Docs and saw this feature today! Couldn't be more glad.
Yeah it’s a great addition - super excited to get organized 😁
Thanks for hint , this will be very helpful
Can't move the subtabs once they're set, huh?
Hey there, I'm able to move them at least! I have been able to drag them up above the tab they were in to get them out of the subtab. Then dragging one back on a tab makes it into the subtab.
May I know how to save all of these doc as pdf ?
@@meiling5929 hey great question and I made a video for printing, which you should be able to “print” to PDF.
Printing Document Tabs
ruclips.net/video/h3_nSATjxis/видео.html
Quick instruction to get all tabs printed: you press the 3 dots in Google Drive (not in docs) and then go to quick view, then print from there. Hope that helps!
I may have missed it - but is it possible to move a page from 1 tab to a different tab. I would like to go back and add tabs to existing documents. Thank you
Hey there, Just checking, like you have, say 3 tabs and you want to move a tab into a subtab? Or more so you have a pre-tabs document and want pages to automatically change to tabs? If the first of organizing already created tabs, you can drag and drop. It seems the limit is you can have Tabs, Subtabs, and Sub-Subtabs (aka 3 levels).
If you are asking about a document without tabs to create tabs based on page breaks or headers, unfortunately you cannot just press a button to "convert" them. What I've done is used CTRL+X to Cut (deletes texts but copies to clipboard) what I want into a new tab, create the new tab and then paste (CTRL+V) the values there.
Hopefully there will be an option to automatically convert like Header 1,2,3 to Tabs. It would save a lot of time re-organizing!
Hopefully answered your question, let me know if I totally missed what you were asking!
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Can you share tabs with different privileges to different people?
Hi, great question! I'm hoping it will but currently you cannot share specific tabs only. If you share (view, comment, edit) it is true for all tabs (like it was before). I am hoping it will change to be more similar with sheets where you can adjust and "protect" ranges but currently not an option.
How did you make the mobile and tablet previews so smoothly at the end of your video?
Very helpful video BTW, thank you!
Hey thank you for the comment! I was pretty happy how those turned out! And I use Canva for my graphics / slides, and they have "frames" which allows you to add videos /photos / gifs into them. So I did a phone screen record, then added that inside their phone frame. The iPad background was an image and I just used a rectangle frame inside it to get that set. I used Adobe Premiere for my video editing, which allowed me to make a cleaner cut of the phone/iPad outline within it.
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Not very nice. The tabs in general should have been optional or they should allow easier use of the headings outline. Not everybody needs tabs and especially not everybody needs separate docs inside docs. Now it's floating there requiring you to think about what tab you are on and makes it much more complicated to use
That’s fair. And yeah I agree having the option to toggle between the two for cases like that.
It’s silly that this is the option atm, but may be helpful if you are doing a long project, you can hide the element for the button by holding shift > right clicking > inspect, then find the div class for the button and hide it. It’ll highlight the button but it’s the one with “miniChapterSwitcherCore”
You’d have to do this every time you refresh and open a doc. So not a great method but again if you are working on a project for a good chunk of time, may help out
Are you not able to add tabs on mobile? I've tried and it only shows me tabs I made on my PC but won't let me add any
Hey that's a great question. I was messing around on mobile and do not see the option to add like you mentioned. So it seems like it isn't available for mobile devices at this point...Hopefully soon it'll be added!
When you download Google Docs to Microsoft Word, does it only download that current tab or the whole documents?
Hey that’s an excellent question. I’ve been playing around more and found that both printing and exporting inside docs/ the tab ONLY does the tab. If you press the 3 dots in Google Drive, then you can print or export the entire doc with every tab. It does change the formatting slightly to include a page for each tab name, then whatever is on that tab.
Does anyone know if we can selectively share only certain tabs with others?
Hey there, Great question. From my testing, it is sharing the entire document or none of it at this point. That would be a really nice option to have! Even changing permissions like in Google Sheets to have certain Tabs be "view only" to some users could have a use as well. Hopefully an update sometime!
@@matttechtidbits I wondered this also. I wanted to make a doc for my my 10 week course. And have a tab for each day, and then just unlock the tab as needed