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title: "Tabs"
url: "https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/5222.html"
section_path: "Configuration > The User Interface > Tabs"
description: "Any window or Command Palette can be displayed as a horizontal or vertical tab."
---

# Tabs

# Create Tabs

Any window or Command Palette can be displayed as a horizontal or vertical tab.

Click on the Grasp Icon in the window or right-click in a Command Palette and select the **Convert to Tab** option.

# Group Tabs

> **Tip:** Tip:When you drop a Grasp Icon onto another Grasp Icon, both become tabs, even if the target was not a tab.

You can display a window or icon palette as a tab. To create the tab, click the Grasp Icon and choose **Make Tab**. To move a tab from one group to another, drag the tab's Grasp Icon onto a tab or Grasp Icon in the target group. The mouse pointer changes to a hand to indicate where the tab will be inserted.

![Image: 001514.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/001514.jpg)\
Insertion is possible when the pointer changes to a hand.

![Image: 001515.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/001515.jpg)\
Icon palettes make great tabs!

If you drop the tab onto a Grasp Icon, it is inserted after the Grasp Icon's tab. If you drop the tab onto a tab, it is inserted before the Grasp Icon's tab provided you released the hand icon on the left half of the tab; otherwise, it will be inserted after the tab. You can use the icon palettes as tabs as well.

If you place the mouse pointer over a tabs group you can use the mouse's scroll wheel to "page through" the tabs.

# Converting tabs to windows

To convert a window displayed as a tab to a freestanding window, drag the tab's Grasp Icon slightly to the left and release the mouse button.

![Image: 001516.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/001516.jpg)\
Here the **Object Manager** is being undocked.

![Image: 001517.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/001517.jpg)\
The undocked Object Manager.