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Using tab order to change interactive form order

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Using tab order to change interactive form order

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- [Instructor] Now I've added the address two field that I had missed the first time around when I made this customer contact info table, I left out address two, which made if someone had a suite number or a PO Box or something like that it wasn't gonna be available to me if I tried to use the form to get in touch with the customer. So let's test this and see what happens now that I've added the field. If I right click this and choose form view. As I'm tabbing through the records, watch what happens when I get to the end of the address one here for Rose Jewelers. Tab, tab, tab, woop. It skipped right over address two and went to city. It's ignoring the tab order. It's ignoring the order the fields appear on screen and it's going its own direction. Go to the next record, Frank's Deli. Tab, tab, tab, skips right over address two. So how do we fix that? We go back into design view and we choose tab order. Here's the button right on the design tab. In the tab order dialog box notice…

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