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2. Select options.
3. Click OK.
4. If you omitted fields, click Omit in the alert message.
Keep these points in mind:
1 A blank arrow indicates a field omitted from the tab order.
1 You can tab into a field that’s formatted as radio buttons and
checkboxes, and use the keyboard to make a selection. See “Entering
data from a value list” on page 4-9.
1 You can tab into repetitions of repeating fields from left to right or top
to bottom. (For example, create a tab order that selects the first
repetition for all fields before it selects the second repetition.) Start
setting the tab order with the topmost or leftmost repeating field. When
you create a tab order, the arrow blinks as you select the rest of the
fields for the tab order and stops when you return to the first repeating
field selected. FileMaker Pro completes the tab order for the repeating
fields based on your previous selections.
To Do this
Renumber individual
arrows
In the Set Tab Order dialog box, click Edit tab order. In the
layout, click an arrow whose order you want to change, and
then type a new number.
Remove numbers from all
arrows and set a new tab
order
In the Set Tab Order dialog box, click Create new tab order.
In the layout, click the arrows in the order you want.
Omit fields from the tab
order
As you set a new tab order, don’t click arrows for the fields
to omit. For fields that already display a number, select the
number, and then press Delete.
Set a tab order for values in
repeating fields
See the information following these steps.
Restore the default tab
order (left to right, top to
bottom)
Click Revert to Default.
Second
click
Third click
Horizontal tab order for
repeating fields (left to right)
First click
Fourth click