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justcallmeeesa
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February 13, 2020
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How do you DISABLE the auto-selection of the EDIT TEXT & IMAGES tool in PREPARE FORM mode

  • February 13, 2020
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The most recent version of Adobe Pro, when I am working on creating forms, if I accidently click on something other then a form field it puts me into EDIT TEXT & IMAGES mode - which is making it so much harder to work on forms. I'm constantly having to click the SELECTION cursor to go back to PREPARE FORM mode. If I am in PREPARE FORM mode I would love to just work on forms not editing the text on the page. Can I disable this feature somewhere? Very frustating! See example below.

 

 

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JR Boulay
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JR BoulayCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 16, 2020

Welcome in Acrobat's UI wonderland!

😉

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe
gauravs43202023
Adobe Employee
gauravs43202023
Adobe Employee
February 15, 2020

Hello,

 

Sorry for the inconvenience.

You can use the below registry details to disable this dynamic switching between text and form fields based on user click.

In case, you face any issues in setting the registry, refer https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/new-feature-unified-edit-text-and-form-fields/m-p/10684483?page=1#M223153

Please let us know if you still face issues even after setting the registry.

 

 

Registry details :

  • Win name: ADC4275035_ClickEdit
  • Mac name: ADC4275035_ClickEdit
  • Data type: Win DWORD, MAC Boolean
  • Win HKCU path: NA
  • Mac User path : N/A
  • HKLM path:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\FeatureState
  • Mac lock file/path: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat/DC/Preferences/com.adobe.Acrobat.FeatureState.plist
  • Default: ON
  • Possible values: 0 to disable and 1 to enable
  • Product version introduced? Oct 2019
  • Applies to both Acrobat and Reader? Only Acrobat
  • Tracks: Cont
  • GUI: (any UI in product?): No

 

Thanks,

Gaurav

 

try67
Community Expert
try67Community Expert
Community Expert
February 16, 2020

I hope Adobe are going to add this as a settable preference, and not send people to the Registry to disable this "feature".

    nicholas.netcentric
    nicholas.netcentric
    Participating Frequently
    July 16, 2021

    I agree. I'm a full-time form designer, I would love for this to be a setting. There's really no reason that form and content editing should be combined... 😞

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