From the course: Access 2016: Forms and Reports

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Edit the Tab Stop sequence

Edit the Tab Stop sequence

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Edit the Tab Stop sequence

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- [Voiceover] Power users will appreciate the ability to navigate your database with a keyboard. By using the tab key, they can move from button to button and between form fields. But sometimes the order, it can get a bit off as we arrange and then rearrange the layout of our forms. We can fix this and ensure proper navigation via the tab key, by paying attention to the Tabstop order. Let's take a look at this by making a really messy form just for the sake of an example. I'll right click on the Control form and we'll just open that straight into Design view. Now this is where we left it at the end of the last movie, so I'm gonna select all of these text fields here and just press delete on the the keyboard to get rid of those, but I'll leave the command button here. Then let's come up to the Add Existing Fields, I'll click on Show all Tables, and then we'll just pull in some fields from our Employee's table. Let's add the EmployeeID and the FirstName and LastName and I'll just shift…

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