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October 15, 2024
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Preparing a Form - multi-line Text Field, non-rectangular

  • October 15, 2024
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Is it possible to have an unevenly shaped text field? I'm preparing a form into a fillable PDF. The form is from an Insurance company so I can't edit the overall structure. They have a place to type multiple lines for the same field, but the prompt takes up a portion of the first line. So if I want to have that be one text field, I need a smaller text field on the first line and a larger one on the second line. But I'd like to make it one field if possible. 

I've provided an image of the portion in question below. I would like those two text boxes on separate lines to be as one field. If that's even possible.

 

 

Thanks

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October 15, 2024

No, you can't have single field shaped like that, but you can limit the number of characters in the first field and have it auto-tab to the second field.  This might split up words without a hyphen though:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/auto-tab-to-next-form-field/m-p/3266547