Hi Peter Gustafik

Studio uses a window manager that's a bit different than most Windows programs, but it offers great customizing options. You can certainly move those tabs elsewhere. Here is where this is all explained:

https://docs.sdl.com/LiveContent/content/en-US/SDL%20Trados%20Studio%20Help-v5/GUID-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

It's worth spending 15 minutes to understand how this window manager works, because you will use it a lot once you can operate it!

In your case, simply open the tabs by mousing over them, then close them by pressing the "X" in the top right of the window.

You can dock them at the bottom of the screen by moving them there, then turning on "Auto-hide".

What I do is I have the Terminology view and the fragment matches in the right column, so there is a "buffer" and I don't accidentally open tose tabs. (Not for that reason, though, just because I like to have this information before me all the time when I translate:

Daniel

Hi Peter,

go to File/Options/Editor/Side-by-side editor and deselect the item Show document structure information

Stefano

You can adapt Studio GUI to your wishes and place all elements wherever you want. The only fixed element is the editor.
Just try.

Hi Peter,

You can simply open each tab and close it with the X on the top right. 

Thank you. This was the most helpful answer.

Thank you, that was driving me insane too. What a stupid default placement for that ... thing. As is the fact that at best you can move it somewhere else. Screen real estate is precious, if I don't want something at all, I should be able to just completely take it out of the UI.

In case that trips up anyone else: if your window is set to auto-hide, you have to unhide it before you can change its placement.