Cannot place checkbox or other field in desired location with mouse or direction buttons

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September 21, 2020
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This is likely a silly question, but I haven't found the answer.

I am trying to place a checkbox in my document using my mouse. When I move the mouse to move the box, the box's position jumps further to left, right, up or down much further than I am moving it. It seems like it's snapping to an invisible grid, but I have snap to grid turned off.

I have been able to place fields where I move the mouse with much more specificity in the past. Now I can't seem to place them where they need to go at all. Is this a setting I have missed?

Using Adobe Acrobat DC & just checked for updates. Am all up to date.

PDF forms

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Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

You can set the position in the properties of the fields.

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Brandy5D98Author

Participating Frequently

Thank you so much, Bernd! I was able to find this.

What I have trouble with now is, how do I pinpoint a location on a document and copy those coordinates? I know where the field needs to be placed visually to line up with the items I've moved within the document. But I don't know how to define the spot using left/right/top/bottom, etc. I may look at the fields documentation within Help again to see if there is something I may have missed.

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George_Johnson

Inspiring

Another thing you can do in form editing mode is display the rulers (Ctrl+R) and then drag horizontal and vertical guides from them. Normally, when you drag a field and a border that's nearest the cursor comes close to a guide, it will gently snap to it. This also works when using the cursor keys to move a selected field. I don't know if this will work for you, but it's easy enough to try. Also, what happens when you move a field by selecting it and using the cursor keys to move it?

Does this behavior show up in any other programs that you use?

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George_Johnson

Inspiring

You likely have the snap to grid feature enabled: View > Show/Hide > Rulers & Grids > Snap to Grid

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Brandy5D98Author

Participating Frequently

Thanks so much, George -- but that's not it. I don't have snap to grid enabled. And it's not snapping to the grid when I view the grid -- it's just jumping here and there.

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George_Johnson

Inspiring

Strange, I can't explain that. You might want to try "Help > Repair Installation" after you first try closing Acrobat and trying again.

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