How to get existing controls into a new Tab control.

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Tom

I use Access 2003.

I have a form with many controls and it's getting
clutered. I want to create a tab control and 'move'
bunches of controls into the tabs of a Tab control.
It seems I can only 'draw' new controls in a tab control,
not copy and paste, nor move into.
Am I missing something?
Tom
 
Please ignore question.
Solution: Draw tab, select & cut existing controls,
select tab control, paste. Sheesh! too easy :)

BTW I wish I knew how to paste controls without losing
their events. I know the event code is there, I mean
losing the event association with the code. It's a real
nuisance when many controls have on average 3 events each.

Tom
 
I use Access 2003.

I have a form with many controls and it's getting
clutered. I want to create a tab control and 'move'
bunches of controls into the tabs of a Tab control.
It seems I can only 'draw' new controls in a tab control,
not copy and paste, nor move into.
Am I missing something?
Tom
Click to expand...

You can cut and paste, but it's not intuitive how you do so!

Select the controls you want to move onto the tab page (ctrl-click
until they're all selected). Type Ctrl-X to copy them to the
clipboard.

Now click the *TAB* of the tab page - not the surface of the page, but
the little tab; the page will highlight. Type Ctrl-V to paste the
controls. They'll end up (usually) in the same arrangement as they
were relative to one another at the upper left corner of the tab page,
or to the right and below the lowest/right existing control on the
page. They can then be moved (en bloc or individually) to where you
want them.
 
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