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nomadic_mye
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April 16, 2020
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Using a Word table converted to a PDF Form - How to deal with having to make changes?

  • April 16, 2020
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Hi! Here's the situation : 

 

1. I have a Word page, which is a table serving the purpose of quite a complex form that I want people to fill. 

2. I convert my Word to PDF and use the Create Form function, it works perfectly and I spend a lot of time arranging the field, making sure each displays what I want and even scripting a lot of the fields. 

3. Discussing with colleagues, I realize that we need to add one or two rows and columns in the form to ask for X and Y information. Here's my problem.

 

Is there a way which I am not aware of to have Word and PDF 'speaking' to one another? Meaning I do not want to have wasted all the work done on the PDF form, but I don't see how to work the Word table in the PDF.... So I have to work on the Word Doc, then export as PDF again and start my form formatting all over ? 

 

Any solution to this? 

 

Thank you all so much!

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Mejor respuesta de try67

Create a new static PDF file, then open the old one and use the Replace Pages command to insert the new pages instead of the old ones. All of your fields, scripts, etc. will remain in place.

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try67
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April 16, 2020

Create a new static PDF file, then open the old one and use the Replace Pages command to insert the new pages instead of the old ones. All of your fields, scripts, etc. will remain in place.

nomadic_mye
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April 16, 2020

Thanks! Depending on the modifications made it's not perfect and there's a bit of adjustments to make, but definitely much better than starting all over! I was not aware of this option so thank you very much! 🙂