You can group tabs in Google Sheets, but the functionality may not be what you expect if you're thinking of visually grouping tabs within the Sheets interface.
Google Sheets does not directly support visually grouping tabs (sheets) together in the bottom tab bar. However, you can organize your work in a way that achieves a similar effect through a few methods. We will use these methods in the succeeding sections.
Follow the steps below to group tabs in Google Sheets.
Right-click on a sheet tab at the bottom. Select "Change color" and choose a color. This visually groups tabs by color.
Name your tabs with prefixes to group them. Right click your tab then select 'Rename'. For example, use "1-Finance" for finance tabs and "2-Marketing" for marketing tabs.
Start by adding a new sheet by clicking the '+' icon.
Name the new sheet as 'Table of Contents.
In the first column, list the names of the tabs you want to link to.
In the second column, use the HYPERLINK function to create clickable links. To find the link to a tab:
Click on the tab you want to link to.
Look in the browser's address bar for the URL. It will end with something like #gid=123456789.
In the "Table of Contents" sheet, next to the tab name, enter =HYPERLINK("#gid=123456789", "Tab Name") replacing 123456789 with the actual gid number and "Tab Name" with the name of the tab.
If tabs are unrelated, consider using separate Sheets files. Link between them using the HYPERLINK function, for example,
=HYPERLINK("https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/your_sheet_id", "Go to Marketing Sheet").
We hope that you now have a better understanding of how to group tabs in Google Sheets. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like our article on the arrayformula filter in Google Sheets or our article on how to add video to Google Sheets.
