I agree, TabStrip is pretty much useless. Look at the SSTab control found in the "Microsoft Tabbed Dialog Control" (TabCtl32.OCX) instead.

HTH

>I thought TabStrip in VB is compared to foxpro pageframes but I was wrong.
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>Pageframes is very important when you have many fields to show, can the TabStrip accomplish the same thing??? or a third party tools need to be purchased.