Issues with changes to tab index in form design view

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Phil

Has anyone experienced this?...

I have a form with a tab control. The tab control has
about 9 pages, and I want each page to have a flow to
it. On each page, I am trying to change the tab index to
have each tab page flow from top left control to bottom
right.

In an effort to do this, I am changing the tab index,
starting at the top left and starting at 0. I change the
next one to 1, etc. Normally, it works fine, but on this
form, once a get through a few, the tab index on a
control that I might change to 5 would change back to 6
or 20 or 31 - it's really wacky what it changes to. Then
I'll go back to the original top left control and it has
changed as well. It doesn't seem to matter if the tab
stop is set to yes or no, and I don't know if it should.
I've had this experience on occasion, but before it just
wasn't that important or it just stopped happening.

One thing I was able to find out by playing with the tab
index and tabbing through the page controls in design
view is that the tab index values and wacky behavior
seemed to be affected by some rectangles and unattached
labels that I had on the page. Why would these affect
the tab index values if these controls don't have tab
stop properties? Still a mystery to me.

If anyone has any insight, please share it.

Thanks,
Phil
 
This is solved - didn't know that if I click on a textbox
on the page I could choose "Tab Order" and edit the tab
order much easier than changing the index values. Still -
the index thing is wacky...
 
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