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March 28, 2018
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Field renaming as you go or bulk

  • March 28, 2018
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I'm working on a form for a physician's practice which contains literally hundreds of Yes/No checkboxes and 40 choices boxes with Yes/No/N/A as choices.

I created the form initial in MS Word, and then used Acrobat DC to prepare the form. for checkboxes, I had hoped to create the first set (i.e., Checkbox1) and then copy it, assuming Acrobat would increment the field name to Checkbox2. I've discovered that is not the case, so I'm looking for help or advice as to how to approach this project. I don't really care if the field names are descriptive in terms of the form itself (i.e., in a drug allergies section, the list is Penicillin, sulfa, aspirin, etc., each with a yes/no checkbox). I plan to write a document that "translates" the forms fields to the form content.

I'm on windows 10 with CC 2018 and Acrobat DC.

Any help is appreciated.

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try67
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March 28, 2018

Renaming fields in Acrobat is very tricky. The only way to automate it is by deleting the old fields and then creating new ones with the same properties, but a new name. This can be done using a script, like this one I've developed: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat -- Rename Duplicate Fields to Unique Fields