Moving/deleting Tabs in a form

[supermorg]

Hey everyone,this may seem like a stupid question but i have been trying for a few hours how to figure it out and thought i would turn to this site. Anyways I created a form using the form wizard and am attempting to change the format. I wanted to delete a few of the field names (not the field itself) and i also wanted to move some stuff around but when i try to it deletes both and wont let me move anything but the whole form itself. Thanks to anyone that can help!

 

[Will_B]

When you say "tabs", it sounds as though you actually mean field LABELS, those little text boxes to the left of each data field that display the field name and ":" at the end. If that is so, read on. Otherwise, your problem is with something other than "tabs", which only exist in tabbed forms, which cannot be created with a wizard.

Assuming you mean field labels, are you using Access 2007? In Access 2007, forms created with a wizard have all their fields and labels grouped together: deleting or moving one does the same for all. To ungroup, go to Layout mode, right-click on any field on your form and from the pop-up menu select Layout/Remove. This will ungroup your objects so you can move, resize, and selectively delete them.

If you are using something earlier than Access 2007, let me know I'll try to replicate the problem at home tonight (where I have Access 2003).