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rgutierrez2003
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November 8, 2017
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I am trying to do an if then statement on PDF form

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I am trying to do an if then statement on a PDF form.

I have the following formulas in excel and would like help implementing them in PDF.

here are the name of the fields on my PDF form.

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gkaiseril
Inspiring
November 9, 2017

Calculations and other actions within Acrobat forms use JavaScript. The column and row cell reference make no sense, we need to know which fields they refer to.

How to do (not so simple) form calculations by Thom Prker

Thom Parker
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Thom ParkerCommunity Expert
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November 9, 2017

All doable in a PDF form. Calculations in a PDF are performed with JavaScript. So you'll need to learn some JavaScript.

Here is a link to an article that will get you started with calculations in Acrobat/PDF

https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-to-do-not-so-simple-form-calculations

And here is an article on writing "if" statements

https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/conditional-execution

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