If you want a caption for a text box, you'll need a label control.
Most people find it easier to set the tab order in the Tab Order dialog rather than set the TabIndex property on each control's Advanced Properties dialog.
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"Steve Worcester" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:347A2E3B-C8EE-4DA8-8529-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Is there a way to add a caption to the defined fileds for a text box?
> In >Properties> Display caption is grayed out forcing me to create a label
> that has to follow it around and another thing to have to tediously move
> around in the tab order.
>
> (Is there a better way to set tab order? than the >Layout >Tab order?)