Fillable form with multiple pages

I have a fillable form with multiple pages. However, when I save it and open it, it tabs to the end of the first page and will go back up to the top of the first page again. It won't tab to the second page. Instead, the user will have to click there cursor into the first field of the second page, tab through that, and repeat this process from page to page. If the person doesn't know there are multiple pages, they may believe they have finished the form once they get to the bottom of the first page, hit tab, and it takes them back up to the first field on the first page again. How can I make it go from the last field on the first page, tab, and first field on the second page?

Thanks for the reply. Since my post to this topic I discovered some things about tabbing. With out adding another master page but just keeping the one and making sure that it's occurance is set to a minimum of one and including master page in the numbering it will work as long as the order of fields in the hierarchy tab matches the order in the position of the fields.
I have a subForm that has a row of fields starting with a button then several text fields. I couldn't tab to the next page because the button was at the bottom of the hierarchy and it wasn't until I moved it to the top that I could finally tab to the next field on the next page. I also discovered that with a one page dynamic interactive form that has some expand able text fields in it and when the field expands so that any fields are pushed to a new second page tabbing seems to not work. In other words when I tab out of that field that is suppose to expand and a new page is added to the form the tabbing quits and in order for it to resume I have to click in a field and from then on it work even if it gets to where a third page and so forth is added. It is just when a one page (in my case) form turns into multiple pages for the first time.
Hope that makes sense.

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