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traceyd23890976
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February 28, 2018
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Creating Auto-Duplicate Text in Multiple Form Fields

  • February 28, 2018
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I am using Adobe Indesign CC and created a master template, which has text form fields. I want the text form fields on page 1 to duplicate to page 3, so that when someone types in their name, in the "Data" field I created, it automatically duplicates to subsequent pages. I copied the text form fields from one master page to the next and when I create a PDF, form the master, the files duplicate. When I use Data Merge the text form fields do not come in as the same text field, it creates subsequent text fields (eg. "Data", "Data 1", "Data 2", "Data 3", etc.....). I want all the "Data" fields to be the same. How do I go about doing this? I am fairly new, so I need specific steps. Thanks

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    February 28, 2018

    You are not the first to complain about this behaviour.

    Unfortunately, you have to rename the fields in Acrobat.

    Fenja

    traceyd23890976
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    March 1, 2018

    Thanks Fenja. Any chance this is something that could be updated in InDesign Data/Merge? My master template is 4 pages, and two of those pages have the auto-duplicate text fields. After doing data merge, the first four pages act correctly (two pages auto-duplicate) and after the 4th page that is when the text fields become subsequent numbers. Would be a great feature in the data/merge to have.

    Tracey