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PapaHeine
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May 14, 2021
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How can I ugroup fields in Acrobat Prepare Form

  • May 14, 2021
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The Prepare Form works super well, but it is grouping some of my check box fields and I dont' want them grouped. Anyone know how to ungroup them or to stop the detection of fields from grouping fields alltogether?

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lisas77851952
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June 15, 2023

I'm also having this problem. Acrobat automatically detected and created the checkbox fields (yay!) but then grouped some of them. To manually delete and recreate a long list of checkboxes is going to take a lot of time. Ugh.

try67
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try67Community Expert
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June 15, 2023

Well, you can use this (paid-for) script I've developed to fix this issue:

https://www.try67.com/tool/acrobat-rename-duplicate-fields-to-unique-fields

 

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lisas77851952
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June 15, 2023

That's cool! I'll consider it if I have to do more lists.


In an InDesign exported pdf file when preparing a form, Acrobat automatically created groups of radio buttons and check boxes for content that was formatted the same. I needed a list where you can check off items and a radio button isn't used for that. To retain formatting properties I copied/pasted a check box, moved it, and changed its Name in Properties. You should be able to change the type of button/box but as far as I can tell, you can't.

try67
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try67Community Expert
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May 14, 2021

That's odd, I've never seen it do that before. It's actually a problem with it because you have to go and rename the fields manually to make them into a group. Maybe this was changed in a recent update and now it's grouping them together a bit too much... Either way, there's no way to control or change how it works. You have to consider it as a starting point, and go over everything manually and fix any issues you find.

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