tab control - how to control which field appear on which page

[jenbrea]

I am brand new to Access (which means that any reponses that use
programming language as opposed to software uses instructions will,
unfortunately, be lost on me).

I have a fairly basic question. I created a simple form for a database
containing contact information for a group of people. I realize the
form is much to long to be on one page, and want to seperate the
information into different tabs (work, personal, notes, etc.) I
created the tabs and labeled them and tried copying and pasting the
fields from the old file into their appropriate tabs, but was unable to
figure out how to make certain fields only appear under certain tab
headings. (Now all the fields appear on top of each other no matter
which tab I click.)

I am sure this is a really simple problem to fix, but I've exhausted my
most creative uses of the help file and of google.

Thank you in advance for your help.

I have Office 2000.

Jen

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

I am brand new to Access (which means that any reponses that use
programming language as opposed to software uses instructions will,
unfortunately, be lost on me).

I have a fairly basic question. I created a simple form for a
database containing contact information for a group of people. I
realize the form is much to long to be on one page, and want to
seperate the information into different tabs (work, personal, notes,
etc.) I created the tabs and labeled them and tried copying and
pasting the fields from the old file into their appropriate tabs, but
was unable to figure out how to make certain fields only appear under
certain tab headings. (Now all the fields appear on top of each
other no matter which tab I click.)

I am sure this is a really simple problem to fix, but I've exhausted
my most creative uses of the help file and of google.

Thank you in advance for your help.

I have Office 2000.

Jen

There's a trick to getting controls uou already created (as opposed to
new ones from the toolbox) onto a specific tab page, isntead of just on
the form behind the tab control, where they show through. What you need
to do is

(1) select the controls,

(2) cut them, using the "Cut" toolbar button, or the Edit -> Cut
menu item, or the Ctrl+X keystroke combination,

(3) select the specific tab page to receive them by clicking on its
tab, and

(4) paste the controls, using the "Paste" toolbar button, or the
Edit -> Paste menu item, or the Ctrl+V keystroke combination.

 

[Guest]

Hi Dirk:
I just tried to add a page inside another page. I did exactly Cut, select
tab, Paste. but the new page always paste to the bottom of existing one. What
am I doing is wrong? Is it possible to have 2 pages in one form and one
inside another one?


Thank you a lot
Wes

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

Hi Dirk:
I just tried to add a page inside another page. I did exactly Cut,
select tab, Paste. but the new page always paste to the bottom of
existing one. What am I doing is wrong? Is it possible to have 2
pages in one form and one inside another one?

You can't put a tab control onto a page of another tab control. Is that
what you mean? The closest workaround I know of is to put a subform
onto the tab page, and put another tab control on the subform.