Tab Order Question (Newbie Alert)

[Robert Ameeti]

At 8:43 AM -0500, 2/17/08, William Conable wrote:

>Usually the very simplest way to take care of this is to make the 
>last line in the procedure that's doing the lookup send you to the 
>appropriate field, eg

Another valuable method to consider is a check to see if in fact the 
lookup was successful and should in fact skip over cells.

A typical occurrence is looking up City & State information. Some 
designers put the Tab Order different from the visual order such that 
the user tabs from the Street address line to the Zip Code. The 
entering of a Zip Code then automatically looks up the City & State. 
By using an IF statement to determine if the lookup was successful 
(the Zip Code may not be in the database), the user can be moved to 
the City to complete that field. If the City was completed by the 
Lookup, then the user is moved onward to the next needed field.

Use the Front to Back for situations where the Natural placement and 
top to bottom, left to right is not the order you want.


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Robert Ameeti

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