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Tabs


are used in dialog boxes when there are too many settings to fit on
the same page (see Figure 3-30).

Figure 3-32. Settings in dialog boxes like this one are often divided into separate tabs; the OK and Apply buttons apply to all tabs simultaneously

Activate a tab by clicking on it. The active tab (or page) is visibly
more prominent than the rest, and the displayed settings typically
fall within the category depicted by the caption of the selected tab.

The rule, when changing settings in a dialog box, is that all
settings behave as though they were all on the same page. That is, if
you change a setting under one tab, switch to another tab and change
a setting there, and then click OK, both settings will be
implemented. Unfortunately, some application developers
don't follow these rules. Sometimes the tab
selection itself is a setting; in the example above, this means that
only one of these settings would be implemented and the other would
be lost. The other problem occurs when settings are saved when you
flip between tabs.

Press Ctrl-Tab to move to the next tabbed page or Shift-Ctrl-Tab to
move in reverse.