Can't find Automatic Tab Order

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
February 2, 2024
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I simply want the user to be able to go from one field to the next with the tab order following the document order. I cannot find anything intuitive that does this. I know it exists. When I search I get instructions that do not match what my Adobe looks like. We just bought it a few months ago so it should be the most up-to-date. This is incredibly frustrating and, once again, I have wasted too much of my time looking for this.

(Yes, I know I can move them manually, but I want to learn how to do it automatically and properly.)

Thank you for any help you can give me.

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try67

Community Expert

Go to Prepare Form mode, click the Tab Order button in the Fields list section of the panel and select the desired option.

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KarenAGMAuthor

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I am not seeing the option to have it automatically set the tab order based on the order of the fields on the form. I only see the option to show the tab order numbers and then drag and drop them.

Nesa Nurani

Community Expert

Run this script from console or a button:

for (var i = 0; i < this.numPages; i++)
this.setPageTabOrder(i, "rows");

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KarenAGMAuthor

Participating Frequently

Thank you. I will try this, but I am not a programmer. I know there is a way to tell Adobe to do this automatically, with a checked option somewhere. I stumbled on it once before with another form when I struggled to find it and somehow did. Unfortunately I don't know what I did.

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KarenAGMAuthor

Participating Frequently

Sorry, I don't even know where to enter these commands. I don't know where the "console" or "button" is.

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