Is their an easy way to rename multiple existing fields?

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April 11, 2026
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I have hundreds of multiple existing fields that I would like to quickly rename.

The fields are named so that they all end in “.#”. For example:

afieldname.1

bfieldname.1

cfieldname.1

dfieldname.1

efieldname.1

ffieldname.1

gfieldname.1

hfieldname.1

etc…

Is it possible to quickly keep the first part of the field name and just change the “.1” to “.2” for all the fields with the same extension?

Any help with this would be a huge time saver and greatly appreciated!

Karl Heinz Kremer

Community Expert

No, unfortunately not - at least not without either 3rd party software or in some cases with a JavaScript running in Acrobat. Such a script would have to delete the old fields and create new fields with the updated names. The problem with that is that a script does not have access to all the properties of a field (it cannot read any potential scripts associated with the field), so this only works in some cases.

S

slaronAuthor

Known Participant

Thanks for responding so quickly. There is another issue that you may be able to help me with that would still save some time when renaming multiple fields.

In the past, if you first selected the field from the right hand panel and then changed the name in properties, it would automatically jump to the next field so that you could more quickly change the names of multiple fields. For some reason now, after I change the name I can see it momentarily jump to the next field, but it then quickly jumps back to the field I just renamed. Is this a change that happened and/or is there a way to revert back to the old way?

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