# Create tabs from existing custom pages
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-tabs-from-existing-custom-pages/69471
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [January 11, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-tabs-from-existing-custom-pages/69471 "2024-01-11T13:14:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Gish04](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Gish04)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-tabs-from-existing-custom-pages/69471/1 "2024-01-11T13:14:59Z")
Hi all,
I’m trying to create new tabs for my app from existing custom pages. Right now when I go to Layout and click the plus sign, I’m only given options to create a tab from “screen from data” or “custom screen”, but I already have some custom screens that I would like to make tabs. Is this possible?
Thanks,
Jackie
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### Author:  [@Uzo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Uzo)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-tabs-from-existing-custom-pages/69471/2 "2024-01-11T13:21:15Z")
Native tabs… no, but you can create a button menu to take you to the custom screens.
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### Author:  [@Gish04](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Gish04)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-tabs-from-existing-custom-pages/69471/3 "2024-01-11T13:26:23Z")
Got it. Can I create components that go to custom screens – if I didn’t like the look of buttons? I haven’t been able to figure that out either. Alternatively, it sounds like I would have to create a new tab and then recreate my custom pages. Does that sound right?
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### Author:  [@Uzo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Uzo)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-tabs-from-existing-custom-pages/69471/4 "2024-01-11T13:28:23Z")
Yes, that would be a good option. You can go to each screen, copy all the elements, and paste to the new tab.
And… you can always create your own buttons using HTML… so they look exactly the way you want…
I have a sample on my page:
> **[StructureArt DIGITAL](https://hello.structureartdigital.com/dl/Home)**
>
> StructureArt Digital Page is a user-aware, interactive system that allows you to connect google sheets with a web application. All data is stored and calculated in google sheets and displayed in real-time on the web. Connect your calendars and...
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 1:30pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-tabs-from-existing-custom-pages/69471/5 "2024-01-11T13:30:15Z")
You could create a new Custom Screen as a tab, and then copy/paste all the components from your existing custom screen. As long as you keep the same source table, that should work.
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### Author:  [@Gish04](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Gish04)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-tabs-from-existing-custom-pages/69471/6 "2024-01-11T13:32:06Z")
You’re both rock stars! Thanks. I’ll try the copy and paste technique.
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### Author:  [@Uzo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Uzo)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-tabs-from-existing-custom-pages/69471/7 "2024-01-11T13:32:44Z")
You have 2 options… copy element and copy all
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### Author:  [@Gish04](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Gish04)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-tabs-from-existing-custom-pages/69471/8 "2024-01-11T13:49:08Z")
It seems to have worked, but I lost the go back arrow in the upper left corner of the app on the new custom pages. Is there a way to get that back?
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-tabs-from-existing-custom-pages/69471/9 "2024-01-11T13:50:19Z")
A tab is a top level screen. Top level screens have nothing to go back to because there is nothing above them.
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### Author:  [@Gish04](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Gish04)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-tabs-from-existing-custom-pages/69471/10 "2024-01-11T13:50:59Z")
Ah. Thanks. I thought they would route back to the home page.
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### Author:  [@Uzo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Uzo)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-tabs-from-existing-custom-pages/69471/11 "2024-01-11T13:51:35Z")
You can add button to do that
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-tabs-from-existing-custom-pages/69471/12 "2024-01-11T13:54:54Z")
Clicking in the page header area always takes you back to the first tab.
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### Author:  [@Uzo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Uzo)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 1:55pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-tabs-from-existing-custom-pages/69471/13 "2024-01-11T13:55:28Z")
Users might not know that 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2024, 1:55pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/create-tabs-from-existing-custom-pages/69471/14 "2024-01-18T13:55:47Z")
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