why auto group text labels ?

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April 4, 2019
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I'm creating a simple form with text fields, drop-downs and have put plain text labels next to each field. Adobe DC Pro has now grouped several of the text fields together making it very difficult to move a text field and only that label. Help!!

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Correct answer try67

If you want to keep them separate you can't use static text. Use form fields (or comments) and set them as read-only.

Bernd Alheit

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This is a feature of Adobe Acrobat DC.

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Donald27513362stms

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To make a simple form, please tell me this is not true........ I have spent over 2 hours making a simple form. This software seems overly complicated. Why can't you make simple text that does not group? Also, if you underline a letter in your text and the system groups it together, the underline them becomes a separate graphic on the page!

try67

Community Expert

Acrobat is not an authoring tool. This is a common misconception.

You need to author your document in something like Word or InDesign, then convert it to PDF and add the form fields to it using Acrobat. Keep a copy of the original file in case you want to make changes to the underlying contents later on!

try67

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If you want to keep them separate you can't use static text. Use form fields (or comments) and set them as read-only.

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