If you’re like me, you’ve probably got quite a few big Numbers documents on your iPad and iPhone. Especially if you’ve got lots and lots of tabs, it can get quite tricky to find what you want at a glance. And for a long time, I’ve wished we could colour coordinate them. Well, we actually can now.

So, all we need to do is tap on the tab that you want to change, and then press the format brush. That’s a little paintbrush icon on the top toolbar. From here, go onto the Sheet Options menu, and then you can choose a Tab Colour, just like picking any other colour in Numbers. You can select the exact colour you want.

And when you’re actively on the tab, the whole thing will light up that colour. When you jump to a different tab, it gets a little underlined effect in that colour. So again, you can quickly see which one the red is for urgent attention, or which one the green is for the next thing you need to look at.

It’s also worth knowing that with this new update to Numbers, we can also hide tabs. So if you work on a large document, but you don’t want everything to be visible all the time, you can simply press the Hide Sheet button on that same format menu. That will then disappear from that top tab bar completely.

But don’t panic, it’s not gone. If you press the plus button here to make a new tab, then you’re going to have the option to restore ones that you’ve previously hidden and make them visible again. It’s not deleting them, it’s just taking them off of that tab bar to give you more space to work on what’s important.

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