ACC97: How to Select Entire Tab Control in Design View of a Form

• Microsoft Access 97

SUMMARY

Novice: Requires knowledge of the user interface on single-user computers.

When you click on a Tab control in Design view of a form, you do not see the control handles (boxes around the control) that enable you to change the size of the control or delete the control.

This article demonstrates how to select pages on the Tab control, and how to select the entire Tab control in Design view of a form.

MORE INFORMATION

The following steps demonstrate how to select different portions of a Tab control. Each page on a Tab control, as well as the control itself, has a different set of properties that you can customize.

1. Open the sample database Northwind.mdb.

2. Click the Forms tab in the Database window.

3. Click the New button to create a new form.

4. In the New Form dialog box, select Design View, and then click OK. A new form opens in Design view.

5. On the View menu, click Properties to display the form's Property sheet (if it is not already showing). Move the Property sheet on the screen so you can see it and the Detail section of the form at the same time.

6. On the Toolbox toolbar, click the Tab Control button.

7. Click anywhere in the Detail section of the form. Note that a Tab control containing two pages appears on the form and that the title bar of the Property sheet displays Tab Control: TabCtl0. Also note the position of the control handles around the control. This is how the control appears when the entire Tab control is selected.

8. Click anywhere in the blank area of the Detail section of the form so that the Tab control no longer has focus.

9. Click in the center of the Tab control. Note that no part of the Tab control is selected, and that the title bar of the Property sheet displays Section: Detail.

10. Click on the Page1 tab of the Tab control and note that the control handles only appear around the page itself, and not around the entire control. Note also that the title bar of the Property sheet displays Page: Page1. Repeat this for the Page2 tab and note the similarities.

11. Click the blank area to the right of the Page2 tab, or click on the top, bottom, left or right border of the Tab control. Note that the control handles appear around the entire Tab control, and that the title bar of the Property sheet once again displays Tab Control: TabCtl0.

REFERENCES

For more information about designing forms, search the Help Index for "designing forms," or ask the Microsoft Access 97 Office Assistant.

For more information about the Tab control, search the Help Index for "tab controls," or ask the Microsoft Access 97 Office Assistant.