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title: "Managing files by using tabs"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Efficiently manage your files in Cloud IDE using tabs. Learn how to open, preview, and organize multiple files in the Editor pane for streamlined development and content editing."
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Cloud IDE uses _tabs_ to help you differentiate each of your open files. Each new file that you open will cause a new tab to appear in the **Editor** pane.

![Example of a new tab](https://acquia.widen.net/content/uslddirbh0/jpeg/ide_adding-a-new-tab.jpeg?position=c&color=ffffffff&quality=80&u=0b06mk)

Previewing a tab
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If you want to browse several files for specific content, but don’t want to open each visited file in its own separate, new tab, you can click a file in the [Explorer](/acquia-cloud-platform/add-ons/ide/ui) [view](views.html) to display the file in preview mode.

When you select a file for preview, Cloud IDE will display the page title in _italics_.

![File opened in preview mode](https://acquia.widen.net/content/x1topzebjz/jpeg/ide_previewing-a-tab.jpeg?position=c&color=ffffffff&quality=80&u=0b06mk)

If you either double-click the file in the **Explorer** view or edit the file, Cloud IDE will dedicate the tab to the file and remove it from preview mode.