Basic Tab Control Question

[Mark C]

In my Access 97 database I have a form with a tab control that has about 150
controls on it (no subforms). When I add another tab and click on it (in
both design and form view) all I see are the controls from the first tab.
Why is this? Should I not be seeing a blank tab so that new controls can be
added on it? Any help would be much appreciated. Am I missing something?



Mark

 

[Marshall Barton]

In my Access 97 database I have a form with a tab control that has about 150
controls on it (no subforms). When I add another tab and click on it (in
both design and form view) all I see are the controls from the first tab.
Why is this? Should I not be seeing a blank tab so that new controls can be
added on it? Any help would be much appreciated. Am I missing something?

Sounds like you just positioned the controls on top of the
tab control instead of creating the controls inside the tab.

You can either select all the controls and cut them. Then
select the first tab and paste them back, or delete all the
controls and select the first tab before recreating them.

 

[AlCamp]

Mark,
When you place or copy fields onto a tab control page, that tab control
page has to be "selected" at the time. If not, the fields you placed on the
tab are really placed on the underlying form, and "show through", as if
they're on every tab page.
Make sure to select the tab page before placing or pasting controls on
it.

Hint: When working with the "tab order" for a tab page, that tab must
also be "selected".

hth
Al Camp

 

[Mark C]

Thanks Marsh

Problem solved. Its been a few years since I had to use the tab control.
I'll make sure this one gets entered into the old memory bank.

Mark C.