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Tab Order Problem

Ronald de Boer

3 years ago

Hi,

I have 4 unbound fields in a Form Header Section and 3 bound field in Detail Section of a Continuous form. In the Open Event on the Form I set focus to the 1st Field in the Form Header Section. This field is Tab Stop 0. The 4 unbound fields have as Tab stops 0,1,2 and 3. Thes unbound fields are all set to Tab Stop = Yes.

When I run the program the Cursor goes to Tab Stop 0 as expected then tab stop 1 then tab stop 2 then Detail Section Tab stop 0.

What am I missing?

The 4th Field in the Form Header Section is Enabled and Locked is No

Ron de Boer

	Sami Shamma @Reply 3 years ago
I use tab stop 10,20,30 etc. I find it easer to re arrange. I seems you have 2 fields with tab 0 from your post.

	Ronald de Boer OP @Reply 3 years ago
Thx Sami, However tried changing as you suggested making the Detail Section fields Tab 10,11,12. MS Access returned an error message stating that the only valid entries were 0 to 10, 10 being the number of fields in the detail section. Still have no idea of what the problem is.

	John Davy @Reply 3 years ago
Try a compact and repair. If that doesn't work, remove the field, compact and repair then add it back. See what happens john

	Kevin Yip @Reply 3 years ago
Click on the 4th field in the form header, press Tab, and see what happens. Each section has its own tab order, and you can't tab from one section to another, unless some code is doing it. Pressing Tab in the header should only cycle through the controls in the header only.

	Ronald de Boer OP @Reply 3 years ago
Kevin & John, Thanks for the clarification on how Tabbing works and I believe my form was corrupted and have created a new form in Form Design and moved the Controls from the old form to to new form which has fixed this tabbing problem. Ron

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