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In Acrobat XI, using a pre-existing PDF made from tables within MS-Word, with hundreds of pages – and 50 or so answers per page (school workbook style Q&A lines and tables with just the bottom line visible for the answer).
I tried first with Live Cycle and it created some of the form fields - leaving me most to create myself.
As make one page and copy the fields from page to page, the field names are the same - therefore the data in the response is duplicated. Help tells me I need to rename each form field - how can I rename all the forms at once, or must I (please say no) rename them one at a time? There are thousands of unique answers and I need a way to automate the renaming - or a better solution. How do I automatically rename 1000’s of text fields?
Someone mentioned something about creating a Java script - about which I know nothing - but is that the solution? If yes – can someone tell me how to apply the script?
Also - if I get one PDF numbered, can I copy / paste form fields from one PDF to another? Assuming they are similar in size and shape etc. just to benefit from not having to number them all again.
OR:
As these files were first opened in LiveCyle from a PDF I made from a MS - Word doc - with thousands of tables as - some were recognized in LiveCyle - and numbered OK -
Must I go back to Word - and redo the "answer" boxes in a way that Adobe will recognize it as a form?
If yes, what is the defining criteria of a form in a blank PDF?
Or - can LiveCyle make a PDF form from within a Word Doc?
Thank you!
- Chayim B. Alevsky