tab control help

[smally]

I usually use wizard for creating forms only now I need to have tabs for quite a few forms.

I've recently discovered that you cant simply put your labels and field on a page then select another tab and put other labels and fields on. I've tried looking frmSampl provided by microsoft put cannot figure out hows the single form with tab control on it works.

Can anyone direct me to online help with forms or provide any help with the tab control tool?

 

[Sergeant]

I've recently discovered that you cant simply put your labels and field on a page then select another tab and put other labels and fields on.

Why not? Perhaps you could elaborate.

 

[smally]

well i make the tab box and then move all me labels etc on top of the tabs page, then i click the other tab made and all the labels etc i left on page1 is still visible and is shown on the other page, this happens in design view and form view

 

[Sergeant]

OK, if you have pre-existing controls on the form and then you add a tab ctl, try cut & paste controls onto tab control instead of dragging them. Or, you can delete controls and drag new ones from the field list.

 

[wazz]

what the sarge said. you have to be certain that you select a specific tab with a mouse click before pasting. if you drag your field controls around on the form they will simply remain in the form's detail section unless you paste them on to a specific tab.
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[smally]

riiight. What I was doing was creating a form via wizard so it would quickly make all my chosen fields and label, then i edited the form, inserting a tab control and tried dragging existing labels etc onto the tab page, niether dragging or copying and pasting worked but creating new text boxes and labels inside the tab page did work.

 

[ericlee]

i have the same problem. originally i have a form with a lot of fields on it. then i decide to split the form into two forms (i don't need a subform.) i create another form with a tab control which has two pages. i can cut and paste some fields on the first page. i click at the second page and try to put the rest fields on the second page but it did not work. the fields look fine on the second page, however those fields are also shown on the first pages when i click back to the first page. anybody please help.

thanks & regards.

 

[wazz]

i can only suggest that if you are dragging fields you be sure to drag the fields right to the middle of the tab-page - don't drop the fields until the background of the page changes colour.

if you drag to the tab - where it says "Page 1" (or whatever you have for a caption) - the fields will be dropped on the form's detail section.

clicking on the tab and pasting should put the fields onto the clicked page...hmmm

w