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whitneyw35827046
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May 7, 2019
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Convert radio buttons to checkboxes?

  • May 7, 2019
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I have several checkboxes in the design of a form that I uploaded to the form editor. Unfortunately the form editor recognized most of my very obviously square checkboxes as radio buttons. How can I convert radio buttons to checkboxes? Using Acrobat Pro DC 2019 on Mac OS 10.14.4.

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    try67
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    try67Community Expert
    Community Expert
    May 7, 2019

    There's no direct way of doing it, unfortunately.

    The only way is by using a script that deletes the old fields and creates the new ones in their places.

    For example, you can use this (paid-for) tool I've developed to do that: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat -- Convert Form Fields Type

    By the way, if you used the Wingdings font to create the placeholders for your check-boxes then you can use this other tool (also paid-for) I've developed to correctly identify them as such and create the right kind of form field on top of them: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat/Reader -- Convert Wingdings To Fields

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