Yes, there is. It shouldn't be too difficult knowing that every tab has an array called "control" with all of the objects in it that are inside that tab. For every tabpage there's also the same array called control. So it just a matter of drilling down to find the point of bumping into your dw_3. You have to save the "path" of objects that precede it. Then do a selectTab() for the main tabpage, another SelectTab for the one that holds your dw_3.

If you need help on how to code this, let us know.

Hi, Jan -

The following code in the "Find" button will display the (nested) tabpage containing dw_3:

tab_1.SelectTab(2)
tab_1.tabpage_2.tab_3.SelectTab(3)

If you are asking how to programatically examine/search thru tab_1's tabpages and any nested tab controls and tabpages within tab_1's tab pages, you have to recursively examine the array of userobjects named "control[]" which is a property of each tab control and each tabpage user object, using the TypeOf() function on each array element until you find a userobject of type DataWindow! whose name is dw_3.

I suggest you start by examining tab_1's Control[] array of userobjects. Use UpperBound(Tab_1.Control[]) to determine how many tab pages tab_1 contains. Then use the TypeOf() function on each element of this array to obtain the enumerated object type (tab pages have a TypeOf() of UserObject!).

Once you can do this, you then examine the Control[] array of each tabpage, looking for userobjects that have a TypeOf() of Tab! (this will be a nested tab control contained on the tab page) or a TypeOf() of DataWindow!. If/when you find a (nested) tab control, examine the user objects (tabpages) in its Control[] array, and so on until you find the DataWindow named dw_3.

HTH, John

Thanks for the reply, my problem was that I did not know that at tabpage is a userobject and that this userobject , in the case of nested tabs, would contain one or more tabs.

Having realised that I am able to solve the problem.