Is there a way to make the pop ups show when people tab through the document?

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March 25, 2024
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Hello
Is there a way to make the pop ups show when people tab through the document to fill it in? I created a fillable PDF but the pop ups only show up when I hover over the area with the mouse.

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Thom Parker

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What do you mean by "Popup"?

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Laura36308396a1ouAuthor

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a button you add to have instructions pop up when people are filling out a document. right now you hover over the area for it to provide guidance before you fill it in. The instuctions do not pop up if you tab through.

Thom Parker

Community Expert

The "hover" text is a tooltip. What you want is different. For clarity, you want to place a button on the form that when pressed displays a popup text box with instructions?

There are a few ways to do this, most of them require scripting.

Here's a non-scripting method. One of the actions for field is "Show/Hide a form field".

To use it:

1) Create a text field.

a) Add the help text as the default value for the field.

b) Place the field where you want it to popup.

c) Set the field properties to read-only and hidden.

d) Set the Field MouseExit Action to hide the field.

2) Create a button for activating the text field.

a) Place it adjacent to the popup.

a) Set the MouseUp Action to show the text field

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