Fill forms
Use the Highlight Fields tool at to make it easier to locate all fields in a form. To change highlight color for ordinary and required form fields, go to .
Set basic form filling preferences
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Go to
to select items that help in filling forms.
See Forms for more details on form preferences.
- In the Field Settings section, select Automatically calculate field values, so that any calculations already defined in the form will be updated in the program.
- In the Field Settings section, select Display focus rectangle so you can always tell which is the current control.
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In the Highlight Form Fields section, select
Highlight form fields when document is opened to color
field backgrounds with the color specified in Field highlight
color.
- Optionally, specify a more intense color at in Requested field highlight color.
- In the Auto-complete section, select On in the list to help you fill text boxes more quickly.
Fill an active PDF form
- Open the form in the program. All its form controls will be active.
- Check whether the controls are in order. Post-edit them only if necessary.
- Select the Hand tool at the top of the Panel bar.
- Step through the form elements making choices and entering text.
- Save the filled form, click its Submit button if it exists, or resend the form electronically.
Activate and fill a static form you have received
- Scan or open the form, converting to PDF if required.
- Use the Settings dialog box in the Form Controls panel to set a language for auto-detected labels.
- Use it also to enable or disable font resizing for text fields, allowing longer entries to remain visible.
- Run Form Typer to detect form controls, have them activated and labeled.
- Post-edit the form if necessary, moving, adding or deleting fields.
- Select the Hand tool, then fill the form.
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Resend the completed form, proceeding with any of the following steps:
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Send the filled form as a PDF.
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Print the form and its contents, and send the printed form.
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Print only your responses onto the blank physical form and resend that.
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As an alternative, you can convert a static PDF form to an active Word form using form mode in PDF Convert – post-edit and fill the form in Microsoft Word and send that, electronically or physically.