Operation Manual

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Forms
Last updated 4/7/2015
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 under Auto-Complete.
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 (Acrobat Pro DC)
You can change a flat form to fillable by either using the Prepare Form tool or by simply enabling the Fill & Sign tools.
Acrobat DC and Acrobat Reader DC users can use the Fill & Sign tool to fill in flat forms.
Interactive form To create an interactive form, use the Prepare Forms tool. See Create a form from an existing
document.
Flat form To enable the Fill & Sign tools, choose File > Save As Other > Reader Extended PDF >Enable More Tools
(includes Form Fill-in & Save).
The tools are enabled for the current form only. When you create a different form, redo this task to enable Acrobat
Reader DC users to use the tools.
Save forms
• To save the completed form, choose File > Save As and rename the file.
• To remove extended Reader features, choose File > Save A Copy.
• To allow Reader users to save the data they typed, choose File > Save As Other > Reader Extended PDF > Enable
More Tools (Includes Form Fill-in & Save).
Print forms
1 Click the Print button , or choose File > Print.
2 Choose a printer from the menu at the top of the Print dialog box.
3 In the Comments And Forms menu in the upper-right area of the Print dialog box, choose one of the following, and
then click OK:
• (Interactive or flat form) To print the form and the typed entries, choose Document. This option prints text
you’ve typed using the Add Text tool.
• (Interactive or flat form) To print the form, the typed entries, and any comments on the form, choose Document
And Markups. This option prints text you’ve typed using the Add Text tool.
• (Interactive form only) To print only the typed entries and not the form itself, choose Form Fields Only.