Programmatically de-select Text Field Options

Can anyone help with the original question? I need to do this programmatically, not manually and not field-by-field. Code that can be attached to a button would be fine if the field names can remain undefined. I'm not a programmer or code writer except in the most rudimentary sense and am just looking for help solving this problem.

First, you have to make sure not to select radiobuttons or checkboxes or other non-text fields,

You can select fields in the "Prepare form" pane, where you can sort them by tab order or by alphabetical order.

and second, even if your form has only text fields, it doesn't work

It works fine for me since years.

These seem to be turned on by default and it drives me nuts.

Turn off these 2 options in one field, then right-clic upon this field and choose : Use current properties as new defaults

By the way, the suggestion to select all fields and deselect those two boxes is not gonna help

Why ? It is, however, the simplest method

These properties are, respectively, doNotScroll and doNotSpellCheck. As you can see, they have a reverse nature, so if you want to disable the Scroll Long Text option you need to set doNotScroll as true. And the same for doNotSpellCheck...

You can use a for-loop to iterate over all of the fields in the file and set their properties. Make sure you check their type first, though, as these properties only apply to text fields, of course (well, doNotSpellCheck also applies to editable combo-boxes, to be precise).