Adobe acrobat reader 7.0 User Manual

 

If a PDF form contains interactive form fields, you can fill in the form with the Basic 
toolbar's Hand tool. When you place the Hand tool pointer over an interactive form field, 

the pointer icon changes from the Hand icon 

 to the Pointing Hand icon 

, the 

Pointing Hand Plus icon 

, the Arrow icon  , or an I-beam icon  . If the form fields 

aren't interactive, the Hand tool's pointer icon 

 doesn't change; instead, you can print a 

noninteractive PDF form and fill it out by hand.

Note: Data you enter into a fillable form isn't saved with the PDF form, unless the PDF 
document contains special usage rights. Instead, you can print the form you've filled in or 
use the form's submit button if one is provided by the form creator.

Some text fields are dynamic, which means they automatically resize to 

accommodate the amount of data you enter and can span across pages. (See 

1.  Select the Hand tool 

.

2.  If you want to make form fields easier to identify in the PDF file, do any of the following 

in the Document Message Bar if the option appears:

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To display a light blue color in the background of all form fields, select Highlight Fields.

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To display a red outline around all form fields that you're required to fill, select Highlight 
Required Fields. (This option appears only if the PDF form contains required fields.)

3.  Click inside a form field. The I-beam pointer allows you to type text; the Arrow icon   

lets you select an item in a list box; the Pointing Finger icon 

 or the Pointing Hand Plus 

icon 

, lets you select a button, a check box, a radio button, or an item from a list.

4.  After entering text or making a selection, do any of the following:

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Press Tab or Shift+Tab to accept the form field change and go to the next or previous field.

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Press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS) to accept the text form field change and 
deselect the current field. If the current field is a check box, pressing Enter or Return turns 
the check box on or off. In a multiline text form field, pressing Enter or Return creates a 
paragraph return in the same form field. You can use Enter on the keypad to accept the 
change.

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Press the Up or Left Arrow key to select the previous radio button in a group of radio 
buttons, or press the Down or Right Arrow key to select the next radio button.

●     

Press Esc to reject the form field change and deselect the current form field. If you are in 
Full Screen mode, pressing Esc a second time causes you to exit Full Screen mode.

5.  Once you have filled in the appropriate form fields, do one of the following:

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Click the submit form button, if one exists. Clicking this button sends the form data to a 
database across the web or over your company intranet.

●     

Choose File > Save As, and rename the file to save the form without the data you entered.

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For information about how to fill in a digital signature form field, see 

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Do one of the following:

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Select the reset form button, if one exists. You cannot undo this action.

●     

Quit the browser, and start again.

Clicking the web browser's Reload or Refresh button or the Go Back button, or following 
a link in a browser window, may not clear a form.