A tab control is useful when your form contains information that can be sorted into two or more categories. For example, the Employees form in the Northwind sample application uses a tab control to display two pages of information about employees. The tab control provides a user interface similar to Windows tabbed dialog boxes.
Users switch between pages by clicking the corresponding tab on the top of the page.
Adding a Tab Control to a Form You add a tab control to a form in much the same way as you add other controls, except that each page on a tab control contains other controls. A tab control can't contain other tab controls, but it's possible to have two or more separate tab controls on a form. Each page in a tab control is treated as a separate control on the form, and every control must have a unique value for its Name property. For this reason, if you add a second tab control to a form, Microsoft Access won't assign Page1 as the default value for the Name property of the first page in the second tab control, or allow you to change the value to Page1. For the same reason, no other control on the same form can have its Name property set to Page1.