Operation Manual

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USING ACROBAT 9 STANDARD
Forms
Last updated 9/30/2011
Auto-Complete forms (interactive forms only)
The Auto-Complete feature stores any entries that you type in an interactive form field. Auto-Complete then suggests
or even automatically enters responses that match your typing in other form fields. The suggestions appear in a pop-
up menu, from which you can select a match. The Auto-Complete feature is off by default, so you must enable it in the
forms preferences if you want to use it.
To remove an entry from the Auto-Complete memory, such as a misspelled entry that you found and corrected later,
edit the list in the preferences.
Enable the Auto-Complete option
1 Choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Acrobat/Adobe Reader > Preferences (Mac OS).
2 Select Forms on the left.
3 Under Auto-Complete, choose Basic or Advanced from the menu.
4 Select Remember Numerical Data if you want the Auto-Complete memory to store numbers that you type into
forms.
When you select an option in the Auto-Complete menu, a description of how it affects the Auto-Complete behavior
appears in the text area below.
Delete an entry from the Auto-Complete memory
1 Open the Preferences dialog box.
2 Select Forms on the left.
3 Click Edit Entry List.
4 In the Auto-Complete Entry List dialog box, do one of the following, and then click Yes in the confirmation dialog box:
• To remove all of the entries, click Remove All.
• To remove some of the entries, select the entries and click Remove. (Shift-click to select multiple adjacent entries;
Ctrl-click to select multiple nonadjacent entries.)
Change flat forms to fillable
You can change a flat form to fillable by either using the Form wizard or by simply enabling the Typewriter tool. Unlike
Acrobat, Reader does not provide the Typewriter tool unless you explicitly enable it in the PDF.
Acrobat users can always use the Typewriter tool to fill in flat forms. Reader users can use the Typewriter tool only if
the creator of the form enabled the use of the Typewriter tool for that form.
Interactive form To create an interactive form, use the Form wizard. See “Create forms using Acrobat” on page 173.
Enter or Return
(multiline text
field)
Creates paragraph return in same form field
Enter or Return
(check box)
Turns check box on or off
Enter (keypad) Accepts typing and deselects current form
field
Key Result