Add a Label to the Tab Order

First ... This forum has helped me learn quite a bit about access and make a
much more effective database then I have before ... thanks!

So ... I have a series of checkboxes on my form. Since I did not like the
size of the checkboxes, I used the workaround suggested by fredg, which looks
great. (It essentially uses labels as buttons with code).

However ... now I cannot get the checkboxes to be tabbed to. Under their
properties, Tab Stop and Tab Index are not listed, and they do not show up
when I bring up the Tab Order screen.

Suggestions?

Sorry, you can't tab to labels.

Try using text boxes instead of labels.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://I.Am/DougSteele
(no private e-mails, please)


"kmsandrbs" wrote in message
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First ... This forum has helped me learn quite a bit about access and make
a
much more effective database then I have before ... thanks!

So ... I have a series of checkboxes on my form. Since I did not like the
size of the checkboxes, I used the workaround suggested by fredg, which
looks
great. (It essentially uses labels as buttons with code).

However ... now I cannot get the checkboxes to be tabbed to. Under their
properties, Tab Stop and Tab Index are not listed, and they do not show up
when I bring up the Tab Order screen.

Suggestions?

"kmsandrbs" wrote in message

First ... This forum has helped me learn quite a bit about access and
make a much more effective database then I have before ... thanks!

So ... I have a series of checkboxes on my form. Since I did not like
the size of the checkboxes, I used the workaround suggested by fredg,
which looks great. (It essentially uses labels as buttons with code).

However ... now I cannot get the checkboxes to be tabbed to. Under
their properties, Tab Stop and Tab Index are not listed, and they do
not show up when I bring up the Tab Order screen.

You could put transparent command buttons over the pseudo-checkboxes.
The command buttons could receive the focus, but you'd have to find some
way to show that such a button has the focus, since the button itself
would be transparent.

--
Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
www.datagnostics.com

(please reply to the newsgroup)

Ahh ... I didn't look past fredg's solution to the link to your Access
Answers, sorry!

I tried the text box solution, which, not surprisingly, worked fine.

Thanks!

"Douglas J. Steele" wrote:

Sorry, you can't tab to labels.

Try using text boxes instead of labels.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://I.Am/DougSteele
(no private e-mails, please)


"kmsandrbs" wrote in message
...
First ... This forum has helped me learn quite a bit about access and make
a
much more effective database then I have before ... thanks!

So ... I have a series of checkboxes on my form. Since I did not like the
size of the checkboxes, I used the workaround suggested by fredg, which
looks
great. (It essentially uses labels as buttons with code).

However ... now I cannot get the checkboxes to be tabbed to. Under their
properties, Tab Stop and Tab Index are not listed, and they do not show up
when I bring up the Tab Order screen.

Suggestions?