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Jennifer Sculley
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March 31, 2016
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Pasting copied text without formatting into fillable form

  • March 31, 2016
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I created a fillable PDF form for my clients who copy and paste a large amount of information to ensure accuracy. There are several fields which are marked as multi-line and have formatting so that the field will fit most information, however, when the clients are copying and pasting the information they are encountering two problems:

  1. it is coming in with the source formatting rather than that field's defined formatting
  2. when they try to paste multiple lines of text it is not wrapping in the field like it should. Instead, it's indicating that it can't paste the text and is running off the end of the field, even though there is plenty of room below.

This form was created using acrobat and is being filled in using reader. Are there solutions for these two problems?

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Correct answer George_Johnson

On the Options tab of the field properties window, is the "Allow Rich Text Formatting" selected? If so, that likely the reason and it should behave as you want when it's turned off. If yo don't want the user to be able to enter more text than the field can display, you should also deselect the "Scroll long text option"

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George_Johnson
Inspiring
March 31, 2016

For #1, what is the field's defined formatting, exactly?

For #2, you say it's "...indicating that it can't paste the text...". How is it indicating this exactly?

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Jennifer SculleyAuthor
Participating Frequently
April 1, 2016

#1: I had defined the formatting for the field to be size 10, red text, and multiline. When the pasted text comes in it retains the source's formatting which means it's usually too big for the field.

#2: It makes a sound to indicate that there is no more room and sometimes will put a + sign in the lower right corner of the field.

I behavior I'm trying to get is for it to always paste in with the size 10, red text, and for multiple lines of text to wrap within the field regardless of the source formatting.

Does that help?

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George_JohnsonCorrect answer
Inspiring
April 1, 2016

On the Options tab of the field properties window, is the "Allow Rich Text Formatting" selected? If so, that likely the reason and it should behave as you want when it's turned off. If yo don't want the user to be able to enter more text than the field can display, you should also deselect the "Scroll long text option"

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