How to quickly tab between text boxes in Excel?

In Excel, pressing the Tab key typically moves you to the next cell, but it doesn't work for navigating between text boxes. If you have multiple text boxes and want to quickly cycle through them using the Tab key, you'll need to use a workaround. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to enable tabbing between text boxes using VBA code, or alternatively, how to toggle between sheets using Kutools for Excel's Navigation Pane.

Tab between text boxes using VBA code

Toggle between two sheets using Kutools for Excel

Tab between text boxes using VBA code

In Excel, tabbing between text boxes is not possible by default, unless you use VBA code.

1. Go to the sheet tab bar at the bottom, right-click the sheet tab that contains the text boxes you want to tab through, and click View Code from the context menu. See screenshot:

2. In the popping Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, paste the below code to it.

VBA: Tab between text boxes

Private Sub TextBox1_KeyDown(ByVal KeyCode As _
MSForms.ReturnInteger, ByVal Shift As Integer)
If KeyCode = vbKeyTab = 1 Then TextBox2.Activate
End Sub

3. Save and close the window to return to the sheet. Then, select the first text box you want to tab through, and press the Tab key to move to the next text box.

Toggle between two sheets using Kutools for Excel

In Excel, one of the most common tasks is toggling between sheets. If you have Kutools for Excel, you can easily and quickly toggle between two sheets using its Navigation pane function.

Click Kutools > Navigation to enable the Navigation Pane, then click Workbook & Sheet tab to go to the Workbook & Sheet section. See screenshot:

Then click the Switch between last and current sheetbutton to switch between current sheet and last used sheet. See screenshot:

Demo: Toggle between two sheets using Kutools for Excel