Can a tab be removed in Adobe Livecycle Designer ES?

I have a form and I want to remove a bunch of unseeded Tab stops and only have Tabs available for the fields that need to be filled in. For the life of me I can find no way to accomplish this? Am I missing something here?

If you have Designer 8 you can ctrl + shift + click any field to remove it from the tab order. If you have Designer 9 try right clicking any field in the panel on the left (where the hierarchy shows up) and click Show Fields Only. As far as I know the only way to exclude a fillable field completely from the tab order in Designer 9 is to make it Protected in the Object pallette under the Value tab so that it gets skipped in the order.

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