Operation Manual

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USING ACROBAT X STANDARD
Forms
Last updated 10/11/2011
• Deselect the option if you want to receive anonymous submissions, or you don't care about that level of tracking.
You can also have the responses sent to someone else; see Patti Sokol’s Return Acrobat form to...not the sender.
Note: If you don’t know the email addresses of your recipients, enter your own email address. The system sends you a link
to the form, which you can email to recipients as desired.
• How to send a PDF form: www.adobe.com/go/lrvid_018_acrx_en.
• Complete forms workflow: tv.adobe.com/#vi+f1495v1626
• Form Submit/E-mail Demystified: www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/form-submit-e-mail-demystified
• Distribute forms using Acrobat.com: www.layersmagazine.com/distributing-forms-with-acrobatcom.html
• Acrobat.com for comment/review and forms distribution: www.sokolconsulting.com/blog/?p=29
Form fields behavior
About form field properties
How a form field behaves is determined by settings in the Properties dialog box for that individual field. You can set
properties that apply formatting, determine how the form field information relates to other form fields, impose
limitations on what the user can enter in the form field, trigger custom scripts, and so forth.
You can set a variety of properties for an Acrobat form field, depending on the form field type. The properties for each
type of form field are selected on a series of tabs. When you change a property, it is applied as soon as you select another
property or press Enter.
All types of form fields have a General tab and an Actions tab. Other tabs appear only in specific types of form fields.
The Options tab appears for most form field types but the options available are unique to each type of form field.
Two items are available on every tab. If you select one on any tab, a check mark will appear, and the option will be
checked on all tabs. These are:
Locked When selected, prevents any further changes to any form field properties.
Close Closes the form field Properties dialog box. If you are changing the properties of multiple fields, you can leave
the Properties dialog box open. Click on each field to change its properties.
Note: If you select Locked on any tab, it locks all options for the field, not just the options on that tab.
More Help topics
“Setting action buttons” on page 176
Modify form field properties
You can access Acrobat form field properties only when you are in editing mode (by choosing Tools > Forms > Edit).
You can change the properties for multiple form fields at a time.
1 Open the Properties dialog box using one of the following methods:
• To edit a single form field, double-click it or right-click it and choose Properties.
• To edit multiple form fields, select the fields that you want to edit, right-click one of the selected fields, and choose
Properties.
2 Change the properties on each of the available tabs, as needed.