Best Practice for creating fillable forms in MSWord?

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Hello, I am new to creating fillable forms in Adobe Acrobat DC. Please could someone tell me what is the best practice for creating the  text fields ina  MS Word dodument that is to become fillable - is it to use a table or do I have to used text boxes?  All advice appreciated!

try67 · Answer

You have to do it by trial-and-error. The fields detection wizard is not very predictable, and its results should always be considered the first step only in the form creation process.

If you want more consistent results then you need to use a script, but it can only create fields based on some textual attributes.

For example, I've developed these (paid-for) tools that will convert a sequence of underscore characters to text fields and certain Wingdings characters to either check-boxes or radio-buttons, with 100% accuracy:

https://www.try67.com/tool/acrobat-reader-convert-underscores-to-text-fields

https://www.try67.com/tool/acrobat-reader-convert-wingdings-characters-to-check-boxes-or-radio-buttons

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