You can create and edit form fields. A form field can be drawn anywhere on the PDF page. You can resize or delete a single form field or multiple form fields simultaneously.
To create a form field
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Choose Forms > [desired tool], or select a form tool on the Form toolbar.
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Drag the cursor to create a form field of the required size.
To resize one or more form fields
Select the form field(s) you want to resize.
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To resize the fields by dragging, select the form tool that was used to create the form field, and then drag any border handle on the field. Press Shift to keep the current field’s aspect ratio.
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To resize the fields by one pixel, press the Ctrl+Arrow key; to resize the fields by 10 pixels, press Ctrl+Shift+Arrow.
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To resize a group of form fields to have the same width, height, or area of a particular form field, select the fields to be changed; then right-click over the field that has the dimension you want and choose Height, Width, or Both under Size in the shortcut menu.
To delete a form field
Click the
Reset Fields button to clear all form fields.
To specify in which order users can tab through the fields in a form
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Choose Forms > Set Tab Order, or click the
Set Tab Order button in the Form toolbar. This will sort the fields according to their creation order: a number appears in the top-left corner of each form field to signal its current position.
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To change this tab order:
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select the Set Tab Order tool
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double-click the field that you want to be the first
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single-click the rest of the fields as you want them ordered.
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click the Hand tool to stop re-ordering. If you stop before all fields are clicked, the remaining fields keep the ordering as displayed.
You can set standardized tab orders. Display Pages in the
Navigation panel, right-click a page and choose Page Properties > Tab Order.
Note
Do not edit form controls or run FormTyper on a form with active XFA controls.