Tab Order in a Tab Control

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Hi,

Interesting one this, possibly its a bug that has been reported but if
anyone has a solution then great.

Well I have a form with a two page tab control, the first page is for
display purposes only and all the fields have tabstop set to 'No'. On the
second page I have a set of textboxes containing the same details as page on
and a few others. The items on page two have tabstop set to 'Yes' and are
displayed in two columns. What I want to do is have the system tab down one
column and then the next as they hold things like Address etc. Now I cannot
use auto order as this will run across the page, so I go into the properties
of each control I want to tab to and change the tab order property to the
next in the sequence. Now what is happening is Access changes the number I
put in to another number and sometimes it takes a few attempts to get it to
keep the number I put in, after this argument if I go back to the controls I
have numbered previously all there numbers have been changed, so whats
happening?

Thanks for your time in advance

Mike J. Soames
 
mikejs2000 said:
Interesting one this, possibly its a bug that has been reported but if
anyone has a solution then great.

Well I have a form with a two page tab control, the first page is for
display purposes only and all the fields have tabstop set to 'No'. On the
second page I have a set of textboxes containing the same details as page on
and a few others. The items on page two have tabstop set to 'Yes' and are
displayed in two columns. What I want to do is have the system tab down one
column and then the next as they hold things like Address etc. Now I cannot
use auto order as this will run across the page, so I go into the properties
of each control I want to tab to and change the tab order property to the
next in the sequence. Now what is happening is Access changes the number I
put in to another number and sometimes it takes a few attempts to get it to
keep the number I put in, after this argument if I go back to the controls I
have numbered previously all there numbers have been changed, so whats
happening?


That's what happens when you set the tab order property.
Access has to renumber some other controls so there are no
two with the same value.

That can get really tedious, so set the tab order by using
the graphical interface provided by the View - Tab Order...
menu item.
 

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