Improve the Access Tab Order tool

[Guest]

Here's a suggestion to make it a lot easier to use the Access form design Tab
Order tool when working with busy or complex forms. When the user clicks on
a row within the Tab Order dialogue window to highlight a an object's name,
why not highlight the corresponding object in the form design window? That
way, the user can confirm that he or she has highlighted the correct row in
the Tab Order dialogue window. If the user were to highlight multiple rows
in the Tab Order window, then each highlighted row could be assigned a unique
highlight color, similar to the way that Excel assigns a unique highlight
color to each cell reference when you are editing an Excel formula.

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Stuart Bratesman, Jr., MPP
Muskie School of Public Service
Univ. of Southern Maine
Portland, Maine

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[Guest]

I completely agree. I have a form with 50+ fields, and because I didn't
create the form, all the controls are not named properly (e.g. they are still
called Combo185, etc.) So I can't tell what field I'm selecting in the Tab
order tool.

Also, I am used to setting the tab index numerically within the properties
window for each field. This no longer works in version 2003; usually as soon
as I type a new number and leave the tab index property field, Access changes
the number to something different altogether. So it's impossible to
numerically reorder the tab indexes - forwards or backwards. I think there's
a fluke somewhere.