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September 17, 2026
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Why is Adobe Sign automatically adding signature fields?

  • September 17, 2026
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Why is Adobe Sign adding signature fields automatically? I have to go in and delete each one manually. Like below, except the document is 8 pages of this:

 

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    Meenakshi Negi
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    September 18, 2026

    Hi Colin27559208oh02,


    Thank you for reaching out, and sorry for the trouble caused.


    Acrobat Sign typically does not automatically add signature fields to form fields unless they are explicitly marked as such.

    Could you please share the initial document that you uploaded to Acrobat Sign? This will help us review the workflow and investigate the issue further.

    If you have any questions, please let us know.


    Thanks,

    Meenakshi

    Participant
    September 18, 2026

    I’m unable to reproduce the problem today. I’ve been using the same process to prepare Excel project workbooks for signature for close to a decade without this issue, so maybe it was just a temporary glitch with the way the Excel Adobe plugin was converting the workbook before loading into AdobeSign. Basically, AdobeSign was automatically converting every empty cell in the PDF into a signature field. I tried multiple workbooks over the span of several hours yesterday, finally resorting to manually deleting each signature field. But they seem to be uploading to Adobe Sign just fine today, it’s back to letting me add the signature fields manually. If the problem comes back I’ll upload a copy of the document.