Tab out of order

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mike

Hi all,

Initially, I have the text box created in sequence and
when I use the keyboard's tab key,it goes in order from
the first text box to the next. But when I delete text
boxes and create another text box or any type of box, the
tab key jumps around the form, not in order.

Originally, i have the text box set up like this:

textbox 1 -->text box 2 --> text box 3---> text box 4

Changes made to the order:

textbox 1 -->text box 5 --> text box 7---> text box 4

The the tab key jumps from 1 to 4 and then back to 5 and
so on. Is there a way to program the tab key to work in
sequence order from 1 then to 5 then to 7 then to 4 ???

thanks for the help...

mike
 
The Tab Order is one of the Properties on the control's Properties sheet. It is on the
Other tab as "Tab Index". Set these in the order you want. If you have

1
2
5
3
4

and change item 5 to 3 then the current 3 & 4 will become 4 & 5 automatically.
 
In file menu do view and tab order that will allow you to
have the tab order the way you like it. Also you can do it
thru properties of the text boxes themselves with tab
order. BTW any new input object put on the form gets the
last tab order # by default.

Martin
 
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