# Show two time steps side-by-side

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-two-time-steps-side-by-side/6339
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [January 29, 2021, 8:02am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-two-time-steps-side-by-side/6339 "2021-01-29T08:02:26Z")
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### Author: ![SamVanDonut](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@SamVanDonut](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/SamVanDonut)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2021, 8:02am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-two-time-steps-side-by-side/6339/1 "2021-01-29T08:02:26Z")

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Hello,

I have a dataset with a couple hundred time steps. I would like to split my (Render) View into two and display e.g. time step 42 on the left and time step 137 on the right. As a next step I would like to change the displayed time step of just the left or the right view, respectively.

Can this be achieved? How?

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2021, 8:57am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-two-time-steps-side-by-side/6339/2 "2021-01-29T08:57:28Z")

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ExtractTimeSteps should let you do that. You will need to create two of it though.

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### Author: ![SamVanDonut](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@SamVanDonut](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/SamVanDonut)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2021, 10:13am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-two-time-steps-side-by-side/6339/3 "2021-01-29T10:13:41Z")

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Ahh that’s actually quite easy. Thanks a lot!