Tabstrip over Mutlipage

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red6000

Can anyone explain what the purpose of the tabstrip tool is in userforms and
why you would ever use it over the multipage tool?

thanks
 
J

Jonathan West

red6000 said:
Can anyone explain what the purpose of the tabstrip tool is in userforms
and why you would ever use it over the multipage tool?

In most cases, I would use a multipage in preference to a tabstrip, and
place controls as required on each page.

However, for large and complex userforms there is a potential problem with
this - userforms have a hard limit of about 450 controls. If you add any
more, then the form crashes. Therefore, under this circumstance, if
everything had to be on one form, I would consider showing and hiding
individual controls depending on which tab of the tabstrip was selected, and
also change the captions of checkboxes & optionbuttons, to give the
appearance of being different controls.

Such a form would be fiddly to code & debug, but it would be a way round the
450 controls limit.


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