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Thomas’s5CBE
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October 24, 2020
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underlining in fillable form text field

  • October 24, 2020
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Good Afternoon, 

 

I am new to Adobe, and have acrobat pro dc right now. I have text field that is in my filliable form, and i want the text to be underlined when someone types in it. Right now, i have been placing lines physcially under the text field box, but i would love to know a way to have the text just automatically be underlined. The only solution i have found was from 2010 in this forum and its suggestions are no longer a part of DC that i can see. Can someone help me out. I attached a picture below of what i mean.Here is my test text field box and when someone clickes in there to type i want it to be underlined. I hope i have explained this well enough so you understand what i mean. Thank you in advance. 

    Correct answer try67

    Set the field as having Rich Text Formatting (under Properties - Options) and then apply the following code as its custom Keystroke script (under Format - Custom):

     

    if (event.richValue) {
var spans = event.richValue;
for (var i in spans) spans[i].underline = true;
event.richValue = spans;
}

     

    It's possible that in some cases the underline will only be added once you exit the field, though.

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    try67
    Community Expert
    try67Community ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    October 24, 2020

    Set the field as having Rich Text Formatting (under Properties - Options) and then apply the following code as its custom Keystroke script (under Format - Custom):

     

    if (event.richValue) {
var spans = event.richValue;
for (var i in spans) spans[i].underline = true;
event.richValue = spans;
}

     

    It's possible that in some cases the underline will only be added once you exit the field, though.

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      Thomas’s5CBEAuthor
      Participating Frequently
      October 24, 2020

      Thank you so much @try67 ! I started using this on friday and noticed on the forum, which seems like years, you are aboslutely the most knowledgeable person on here. My hat is off to you. With that said, I have an interesting question. You don't have to go into detail since I know you are probably busy but I was wondering and my interest is peaked about something. Figured I would save hours of research and just straight ask you--if you don't mind. Let's say I send a form to a customer to fill out that is PDF filliable form; is it possible that I can take that form that they filled out and populate fields with their information into another PDF filliable form? 

       

      Basically, here is my situation. We send the customer a quote that has all the information on it in filliable forms from adobe dc. When we get the quote back, we have to fill out another PDF that is basically a dispatch to a field technician. 80% of the infomration on the dispatch is exactly the same; so, rather than copy and paste for 3 minutes each time, is there a way to take that form they already filled out and populate my new dispatch form with their information. 

      try67
      Community Expert
      try67Community Expert
      Community Expert
      October 25, 2020

      Thanks! And sure, that's possible. You just need to make sure the names of the fields in both files are the same (at least those that you want to transfer over), and then you could use the Export Form Data command on the first file, save the file as an FDF or text file, and then use Import Form Data on the second file and select the file you just created. That's it!

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