personally, i love the TabControl and use it a LOT in my databases' forms,
but i hate the way it looks. so i set the control's BackStyle property to
Transparent, and the Style property to None (no tabs or buttons). so my
users don't "see" the tab control at all, only the objects i place on each
page of the control. in order to navigate between pages, i use an option
group with toggle buttons - one button for each page.

hth


"sandrao" wrote in message
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Is there any way to change the background color on a Tab Control form.
The
default color is some sort of gray color. I would like to the Tab
control
form along with its tabs blend in with the Design view form that it in
embetted in.
There seems to be nothing in its properities that allows for color change.