silly question about tabindexes

[marduk813]

My userform has about 30 controls on it. Their tabindex properties are not in the correct order, so I need to renumber them. I was able to successfully do this on the first 6 controls, but after that I am unable to do it. I thought it might have something to do with duplicate tabindexes, but even when I try to specify an unused tabindex, the property always resets itself to its previous value. Make sense?
I thought this would be relatively easy to do, but it's getting to be very annoying.
Any thoughts?

 

[Zathras]

Use View/Tab Order from the menu.

 

[xlbo]

Dunno 'bout duplicates but in help, it says that you can only use numbers from 0 to 1 less than the number of controls on your form

Have you tried using the "Setdefaulttaborder" property of the form - this will auto tabindex left > right and top > bottom Rgds
~Geoff~

 

[marduk813]

Thank you both for your help. I didn't realize that grouped controls inside a frame start with a tabindex of 0. As it turns out, that was the whole problem. I was trying to change the tabindex of a control (in a group of only 2) to 7 to be in order with all the controls on the form. Once I just let it be 0 and set the next grouped control to 1, everything worked out fine. See, I told you it was a silly question.

Thanks again to both of you for replying. You each taught me something I didn't know.