1. Open the document in Designer View, click the “Tab Control” icon and position the Tab Control on your document. Stretch the control so that it’s roughly the right size – you can always enlarge or reduce it in size later;

2. The “Tab Control” Dialog Box, now appears. Click on the Create button to create a Tab. So if you want the Control to have four tabs, click the Create button four times;

3. Move your cursor into the Name field and overwrite the text labels Tab1, Tab2, etc, with meaningful names.

Populating the Tab Control

Having created a blank Tab Control, you now have to populate it with objects – most obviously, fields.

When an object is placed in a Tab Control, it can either common to all Tabs in the Control, or unique to a single Tab in the Control.

1. To create a common object, create the object outside the Tab, and then copy, or cut and paste, or drag and drop, the object on to the Tab Control. The object will now appear in every Tab in the Control.

2. To create a unique object, create the object inside the Tab in which you wish the object to appear.