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Organize screen space with tabs

Organize screen space with tabs

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Organize screen space with tabs

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- [Instructor] A tab control can be used to add extra space to your form, or to group similar or related objects together. Adding a tab control is a great way to organize your form, but it's not a control that you'll want to use on reports. Since most reports are printed out, you obviously wouldn't be able to click on the paper to change different tabs. The Tab Control can be found in the Controls group, just like all the other controls. And it's represented by this icon here, with the two tabs on the right-hand side. I'll go ahead and click it to activate it, and then come down into my form, and I'll click and drag out a rectangle to represent the area where I want my tabs. That'll drop in two tabs by default named Page 1 and Page 2. You can add in additional tabs into the control by right-clicking on that and going to Insert Page. That'll add in page number three. Alternatively, you can right-click on a page and…

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