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Jibsman
Jibsman
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October 7, 2018
Question

Word Form not converting

  • October 7, 2018
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Following the instructions to create an editable online form, I have a Word Document with form fields already completed. I do NOT want to recreate this form.

Open the file in Acrobat Standard DC, just purchased, and click Tools then Prepare Form. I get a message  No New Form Field Annotations Were Detected. The "Form" becomes just a standard doc, with all my form entries, pulldowns, etc. gone.

Someone have workable instructions to convert my Word Form into an PDF Form I can post online for people to fill out and submit?

Pardon the Salt. I've been working on this for hours, then spent $22 to create this form and it's not working. Just a little frustrated.

Jibs

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    BhavnaNegi
    Adobe Employee
    October 8, 2018

    Please share the word file with us. How to share a file using Adobe Document Cloud  - https://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-7161

    Jibsman
    JibsmanAuthor
    Participant
    November 26, 2018

    Responded to you directly.

    try67
    Community Expert
    try67Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 7, 2018

    Sorry, we can't offer you any good news. The only form fields that are converted successfully are from OpenOffice documents.

    Form fields in Office documents have to be recreated from scratch. You could have easily tested it, or find out about it by searching, before putting the effort into creating the fields in Word...

    Jibsman
    JibsmanAuthor
    Participant
    October 8, 2018

    Yeaaaah... Misleading... when I followed the instructions to convert it said "Hey, buy this! Then you can convert you WORD document!"

    Nothing about "Hey, if you had created this document in OpenOffice You could have converted this for $XX!"

    But I've spent the money, and need to make the form so I'll start over.

    And yeah, this time I won't spend a dime for any other "Hey, for $XX you can...".

    As for your response, not appreciated. "You could have easily..." Nope. Not appreciated at all. Keep that crap to yourself next time mister knowitall.

      try67
      Community Expert
      try67Community Expert
      Community Expert
      October 8, 2018

      No problem. Good luck...

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