diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f228516e..37cccf8c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
     <groupId>org.embl.mobie</groupId>
     <artifactId>mobie-viewer-fiji</artifactId>
-    <version>5.1.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>5.1.8</version>
 
     <!-- mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true -Dscijava.app.directory=/Users/tischer/Desktop/Fiji/Fiji-MoBIE.app -->
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/embl/mobie/lib/table/TableView.java b/src/main/java/org/embl/mobie/lib/table/TableView.java
index 8572a8eb..89cb4fc9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/embl/mobie/lib/table/TableView.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/embl/mobie/lib/table/TableView.java
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 
 import de.embl.cba.tables.Logger;
 import de.embl.cba.tables.TableUIs;
+import de.embl.cba.tables.Tables;
 import ij.IJ;
 import ij.gui.GenericDialog;
 import org.embl.mobie.io.util.IOHelper;
@@ -198,6 +199,8 @@ private JMenuBar createMenuBar()
 
 		menuBar.add( createComputeMenu() );
 
+		menuBar.add( createMiscMenu() );
+
 		return menuBar;
 	}
 
@@ -211,6 +214,13 @@ private JMenu createSelectionMenu()
 		return menu;
 	}
 
+	private JMenu createMiscMenu()
+	{
+		JMenu menu = new JMenu( "Misc" );
+		menu.add( createColumnSearchMenuItem() );
+		return menu;
+	}
+
 	private JMenu createComputeMenu()
 	{
 		JMenu menu = new JMenu( "Analyse" );
@@ -355,6 +365,28 @@ private JMenuItem createSelectAllMenuItem()
 		return menuItem;
 	}
 
+	private JMenuItem createColumnSearchMenuItem()
+	{
+		final JMenuItem menuItem = new JMenuItem( "Focus Column..." );
+		menuItem.addActionListener( e ->
+				SwingUtilities.invokeLater( () ->
+				{
+					final String[] columnNames = Tables.getColumnNamesAsArray( jTable );
+					final GenericDialog gd = new GenericDialog( "Focus Column" );
+					gd.addChoice( "Column", columnNames, columnNames[ 0 ] );
+					gd.showDialog();
+					if ( gd.wasCanceled() ) return;
+					final String columnName = gd.getNextChoice();
+					int columnIndex = jTable.getColumnModel().getColumnIndex( columnName );
+					JViewport viewport = (JViewport) jTable.getParent();
+					Rectangle rect = jTable.getCellRect(0, columnIndex, true);
+					Point pt = viewport.getViewPosition();
+					rect.setLocation(rect.x - pt.x, rect.y - pt.y);
+					viewport.scrollRectToVisible(rect);
+				}) );
+		return menuItem;
+	}
+
 	private JMenuItem createComputeDistanceMenuItem()
 	{
 		final JMenuItem menuItem = new JMenuItem( "Compute Distance to Selected Rows..." );