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title: "Tabbed window columns"
description: "Turn a stack into tabs when each window deserves the full height. A clickable tab bar shows what's in the column."
url: https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/tabbed-columns
lang: en
---

# A stack, as tabs

Turn a stack into tabs when each window deserves the full height. A tab bar above the column shows what's in it.

- **Click a tab:** Clicking a tab brings that window forward.
- **Or use the keyboard:** ⌃⌥↑ and ⌃⌥↓ switch tabs in the focused column.
- **One switch:** ⌃⌥⇧T turns tabs on and off for the focused column.

**Scrolling Windows is optional.** It stays off until you turn it on. While it's on, window snapping and automatic window snapshots pause, and restoring a workspace turns it off; the strip saves its own session instead.

## Keep exploring

- [Scrolling Windows](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/scrolling-windows)
- [Column widths](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/column-widths)
- [Stacks](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/stacks)
- [Grid tiling](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/grid-tiling)
- [Strip overview](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/strip-overview)
- [Scrolling on several displays](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/multiple-displays)
- [Trackpad swipe](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/trackpad-swipe)
- [Focus, gaps and the Dock](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/focus-and-gaps)
- [Floating windows and app rules](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/floating-windows)
- [All features](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features)

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