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July 11, 2022
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Looking for help in creating fillable forms with formulas

  • July 11, 2022
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Is there a way in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to create formulas in fillable forms that adds up various cells and provide a total? Appreciate the help!

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ls_rbls
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July 12, 2022

++Adding to the discussion

 

You can easily achieve that using Adobe Acrobat Pro built-in features.

 

This Adobe Helpx guidance is a good place to start in order to get better familiarized with the basics:

 

 

There three ways to create calculations based on the values of a range or set of fields:

 

  • Acrobat built-in feature: "Value is the" to acquire the sum, product, average, etc. fron a group of fields

 

  • Simplified field notation

 

  • Custom calcution script - which involves a more advanced understanding of how to employ JavaScript or with a combination of JavaScript with Acrobat's built-in features

 

For the easiest and quickest  way to get your form running use this guidance:

 

 

 

 

Participant
July 12, 2022

Thanks!

Amal.
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July 11, 2022

Hi Amanda

 

Hope you are doing well and thanks for reaching out.

 

The workflow you are trying to achieve is possible using JavaScript. For more information please check the help pages listed below:

https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/javascript_console/

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/applying-actions-scripts-pdfs.html

 

Hope it will help

 

Regards

Amal

Participant
July 12, 2022

Thank you!