For buttons and radio buttons, Options can control styles and choices. For textareas, you can set Multi-line here as well. Options: For textboxes, set Alignment (such as Left or Center) here.Appearance: This is where you can set the font size (auto resizes to fit the space as you type, but setting the font size to 10pt may look more professional), the font, and text color.You can also set whether the field is required (an answer must be given). General: Set the Name of the field, which shows in the sidebar list.

Setting Properties: With fields that you add or with misnamed/misconfigured fields, you can right click on the field and select Properties. Then click and drag where you want the field to go in the document. Missing Fields: If Adobe missed converting a field, use the bar of tools at the top to select the type of field you want to enter (textfield, checkbox, radio options). Click on them, then click and drag the sides to resize. You can resize fields to a more professional look. Not Quite Right Fields: Adobe will judge the size and width of the fields it generates. Simply click on these fields and hit Delete to remove them. Mistaken Fields: Sometimes Adobe will detect a space that it converts to a field (this often happens with table cells and Excel spreadsheets). We’ll also need to at a textfield for people to type comments in. On the right sidebar, you can also see a list of Fields.Īs we can see in this example, Adobe automatically created a field for Company Name and checkboxes for the first question, but skipped the checkboxes below. Once this initial automatic conversion is done, you can see in form editing view that some fields have been inserted.

When Adobe is done, it may give you a dialog box that says you are in Form Editing mode.

It will automatically generate fields based on what it detects.

Adobe will take a moment to import and convert your form.

Browser for your “base” file, then click Next.

In the dialog box that appears, under PDF Form, select Use an existing file.

In the sidebar that appears, expand Forms.

In the upper right corner, click on Tools.

Open your version of Adobe Professional.

It can be in Excel, Word, or even already in PDF format, for easiest convenience.

Have your “base” file handy: this is your existing document with fields marked (usually with underlines or table cells). …this tutorial will show you how to quickly convert your existing document (in Excel, Word, or even PDF format already) to a PDF with custom fields, checkboxes, and “print” and “email” buttons. If you’ve ever seen a PDF form with fillable fields, like below… If you have Adobe Professional instead of Adobe Reader (the latest version is Adobe XI Pro), you can edit PDFs and create and edit PDF forms.

Posted by SpireTech in Managed Service Client updates on December 3, 2014

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