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Old December 7th, 2009, 10:58 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.forms
forest8
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Default Pages in a Form

Hi there

I would like to create a form that instead of one long continuous form,
there would be section breaks at logical intervals.

How do I go about in creating this?

Thanks
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Old December 8th, 2009, 12:10 AM posted to microsoft.public.access.forms
Linq Adams via AccessMonster.com
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Having forms that are longer than one screen, even using Page Breaks, IMHO is
one of the most user-unfriendly things you can do! You're far better off to
use Tabbed Control Pages. The data can be devided into logical groupings and
there's no scrolling forever to find a given item.

Here's a quick little tutorial I give people on the use of Tabbed Pages. It
addresses some of the common problems experienced with them:

First thing to remember is that the Tabbed Pages are all part of a single
form; think of it as a really long form turned on its side. Because it is all
one form, all referencing to any control on it is done in the same manner as
if they were all on one single screen. Create a form in Design View. Goto the
toolbox and click on the Tabbed Control icon; it actually looks like several
manila file folders. Place it on your form and adjust the size to your liking.
If you need more than the two tabbed pages it initially gives you, click on
the tabbed control to select it. Goto Insert and click on Tabbed Control Page
and another tabbed page will be added. Do this as many times as necessary.

This is the really important part: when you go to add a control to a tabbed
page, whether it be a textbox, command button or subform, you must first
click to select one of the pages, then add the control. Otherwise, the
control will be added to the form itself, and will show thru on all tabbed
pages! If a single page has been selected, when your cursor carrying the
control appears over the page, a black "insert" will appear.

Once you have the form's Control Source (your table or a query) set up, you
simple add controls as you normally would, heeding the above paragraph.

Also important to understand! If you go to move a control from one part of
your main form to a tabbed page, you cannot drag and drop it! You must cut it,
select the tabbed page, then paste it! And if the control has any code behind
it, a GotFocus, OnClick, etc, after dropping it on the tabbed page, you'll
have to "re-connect" it to its code. Select the control, goto Properties,
click to the right of [Event Procedure] on whatever event to bring up the
ellipsis (...) then click it to go to the code window. Exit the code editor
and the control and its event code will be connected.

One last thing. When trying to access the Properties of the Tabbed Control,
such as the BackStyle, people complain that they can't find the property. The
problem is that they haven't selected the Tabbed Control, they've selected
one of the pages of the Tabbed Control! The best way to be sure of selecting
the Tabbed Control itself is to click to the right of the last tab. If you
have 2 tabs, for instance, click in the blank area where Tab 3 would be, if
you had a Tab 3.

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