Fake control for tab order?

[BDibz]

I have a main menu form with a nav control where the first tab is menu buttons and the second tab is instructions for updating. In the second tab, I have a box of text and below that a tab-control with a series of instructions throughout the tabs. The problem is, when I go through the nav control to the instructions page, the form automatically scrolls down to the tab control section since it's the first 'control' on the page. I'm thinking of adding some sort of fake control at the top of the page so that the form considers it the first tab-stop, but I don't know if there's a more elegant way to just add a tab-stop without a fake control. Any ideas?

[Micron]

For me, no experience with nav forms since anything I've read about them discourages experimentation on my part. Maybe one day...
Anyway, is the text instruction in a label? Just make it a textbox, and if you want, make it look like a label, Enabled = yes, Locked = yes and .SetFocus in the form open event. Might look strange to you with having a blinking cursor in a paragraph of text though.

[BDibz]

I ended up just making the first set of instructions another tab control and splitting the instructions into 2 tabs... which is funny, because I'm just working around Access instead of making it work for me. Oh well.

[isladogs]

Why don't you just change the tab order on your instructions page so the item you want is first in the order

[Micron]

Why don't you just change the tab order on your instructions page so the item you want is first in the order

I thought the problem was that it was doing exactly that:

the form automatically scrolls down to the tab control section

but I do wonder what it is the user wants to see at the top if there are no data controls there. It would mean you have to scroll down to get to them, thus moving content out of view. Perhaps that content is merely title labels or similar, in which case the issue is probably that the form is just too tall.

[isladogs]

He said the second tab control is first in the list on the instructions page.
I'm saying put the textbox first in the tab order so that's where the focus goes ... which I believe is what he wants.
If not I'm confuzzled by his explanation

[BDibz]

Where I have the tab control "Update Instructions" and "Sse Instructions" Used to just be a rectangle housing the information. But these labels did not appear in the tab order selection, since they are not controls. Replacing this with a tab control module allowed me to set the tab-stop to the correct starting location in the form.

[Micron]

I'm glad one of us is fully aware. As far as I'm concerned, the problem is that the focus/view moved down somewhere to the tab control below "Import Help" instead of staying at the top where the instructions were. Now that the content that was in the labels has been put onto a tab control, view stays at the top of the form. But I've been wrong before and will be again.

[isladogs]

To be pedantic, labels are controls. However you are correct in saying these don't appear in the tab order list
However you could have done this by using a text box in place of all your labels.
In fact if you had bound the textbox to a memo field and used rich text you could have formatted part of it in italics as well.

BTW Point 4 is missing

[Micron]

To be pedantic, labels are controls.

Yes, but they don't accept focus so why bring that up? You should leave such minor observations to me since I've been accused of being nit-picky before in this forum. No sense in you being dragged down to my level!
Make it a textbox? Hmmm - about the 4th sentence in my first reply I might have mentioned that.

[isladogs]

LOL. Sorry about that. Pistols at dawn it is then.....

[BDibz]

BTW Point 4 is missing

Hmm... so it is.

Thanks

[Micron]

Pistols at dawn it is then

You bring a knife and I'll be there.

[isladogs]

Nah. I don't do dawn these days .....

[Minty]

Is she retired ?