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Excluding fields from tab order

liztapanes
Registered: Jun 13 2007
Posts: 40

How do you exclude fields from tab order in Livecycle?

fanchunrong
Registered: Mar 4 2008
Posts: 37
can anyone answer this one? I want to know too. We put some patches (because we are not allowed to change the artwork of the form) by using the textbox on the form. We don;t want user to tab to those patches. How can we skip them? Or, is there any other way to do those patches without having a tabstop associated?
jmason
Registered: Jun 22 2007
Posts: 73
Hello,

Try this:

Start your tab order as usual (in the View menu), and Shift+Click in the first field you want to start with. Then, continue clicking in appropriate fields you want to keep in the tab order. The fields you don't want to be tabbed to, Shift+Ctrl+Click on the field and it should turn the number a different color. Mine turns an off white color, and the fields that get tabbed to are blue. Hope this helps!
fanchunrong
Registered: Mar 4 2008
Posts: 37
Hi, jmason,
Thanks for your reply. I tried as you suggested. In the first round, it did skip those patches. But if I keep tabbing from the last tab order (in blue), then it will goes to those patches. Does yours excludes those controls totally?
jmason
Registered: Jun 22 2007
Posts: 73
I suppose not, but it does skip them for the time being. I am just starting to work in this program again, and I'm a little rusty. For some reason I thought it would drop them from the sequence completely. I'm not sure what else to suggest for you. I hope you find what you're looking for =)
KathrynGZ
Registered: Apr 15 2008
Posts: 35
Try this:
http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?id=12723

HTH--
Kathryn