and 
tabs — can be tailored to show the columns you want, in the order you want.
## Customise the columns
1. **Open the column picker.** In the document-list toolbar, select 
. The column picker opens.
2. **Show or hide a column.** Tick a column to show it in the list, or untick it to hide it. When the list is long, type in the search box to find a column by name.
3. **Reorder the columns.** Drag a column by its handle to move it up or down. The top-to-bottom order in the dialog is the left-to-right order of the columns in the list.
4. **Resize a column.** Drag the border between two column headers to make a column wider or narrower.
5. **Apply your changes.** Select 
to update the list with your changes.
restores the standard columns, their order, and their widths. 
closes the dialog without making changes.
## Search within columns
Select 
in the document-list toolbar (labelled "Search" on a wide screen, icon-only on a narrow one) to show a filter row beneath the column headers — it stays hidden until you do. Type in the box under any searchable column to narrow the list to the rows that match. Select the button again to hide the row.
{% hint style="info" %}
**What these settings affect, and how they're saved:**
* They change only how the **on-screen** document list looks — they do **not** change the columns in the exported Document Index.
* Your column widths and other layout choices are saved in your browser, so they are kept when you reload the page; each document list keeps its own — the and tabs are saved separately.
* On the tab, your sort and filter are remembered too.
To change the Document Index columns, see [Column options](/reference/column-options.md).
{% endhint %}
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