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Can't continue editing form in fill & sign?

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March 7, 2017
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I've opened a flat form in Acrobat Reader DC, and used fill and sign to fill out part of it. I saved the partially completed form and went back to work on it today. I realized one of the fields was incorrectly filled in, but when I tried to click on the text box to edit it, it just tries to make new text boxes--it doesn't seem to recognize that the text was created by fill & sign.

Is there an option I'm missing? When I was initially editing the form, I had been able to click on text boxes I'd just created and edit them, this just seems to have become a problem after closing the file.

Correct answer Souvik Sadhu

Hi @Eric Gandler,

Hope you are doing well.

Thanks for sharing a workaround to the initial question.

However, there are certain downsides to doing so:

Signature becomes invalid – No longer legally binding or secure.
Formatting may break – Layout, images, and text can shift.
Loss of interactivity – Form fields and checkboxes won't work.
Text may distort – Some content might turn into images or unreadable text.

Regards,
Souvik.

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1) Save As a word document.

2) Open in Word

3) Modify as needed.

4) Inside Word, Save As PDF.

Done.

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Hi @Eric Gandler,

Hope you are doing well.

Thanks for sharing a workaround to the initial question.

However, there are certain downsides to doing so:

Signature becomes invalid – No longer legally binding or secure.
Formatting may break – Layout, images, and text can shift.
Loss of interactivity – Form fields and checkboxes won't work.
Text may distort – Some content might turn into images or unreadable text.

Regards,
Souvik.

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Can I edit a PDF that I signed?

If you’re the only one signer, you can remove the signature and then work on the document or edit the source document.

To remove your signature, right-click the signature and then choose Clear Signature.

If you have a signed PDF, you can request the signer to remove the signature and share the PDF or send an unsigned copy of the PDF.

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Have you by any chance found a solution yourself yet? I've chatted with 2 different help center agents but neither of them were any help!

Community Expert

Community Expert

After signing the document you can't change previous added text.

Participant

Ah. 2 help center agents failed to provide me with this answer after lenghty explanations.

So thanks very much!!!

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Community Expert

Did you sign the document?

geoffi73096143Author

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I haven't