Preparing Form - Tabbing to "read only" fields

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February 26, 2021
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I'm a huge "keyboarder" and encourage tabbing over mousing every time. The problem I have is I cannot figure out how to prevent tabbing to "read only" or "hidden" text fields. It doesn't make sense to me that you could tab to a field where you could not enter data. I've checked in Properties and Preferences and that was a bust. Does anyone have a solution for this? Your help would be VERY much appreciated.

Thanks!

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JR Boulay

Community Expert

I guess this is because of an old bug of Acrobat which was never fixed: I guess you're using the Black Arrow tool instead of the Hand tool.

(Unlike the Hand tool, the Black Arrow tool allows you to click in a read-only field and see the pointer blink in it, even if it does not allow you to fill it in.)

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Enisa26726217tvev

Participant

I went to Edit-> Preference-> general and ensure the Hand tool to read articles is checked. The weird thing is that I uninstalled reader and reinstalled it and Im still getting the issue. It worked until late September and then something happened, I cannot figure it out. Its like some setting was changed or updated and its stuck in the registry... Makes zero sense! I ensured that i am opening in reader and not in browser.

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Enisa26726217tvev

Participant

Was this issue ever resolved? I am also experiencing the same issue, I tab to a read only field in reader DC.

try67

Community Expert

Again, this is not how it usually works. Can you share a file that demonstrates this issue?

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Enisa26726217tvev

Participant

it appears to be only impacting me. My colleague and I get the same exact file, she is able to tab and it takes are to the next typeable field where as when I tab it take me to a read only field.