Calculations in Adobe

[Ashez314]

I have developed a deposit form and I'm trying to enter calculations to make it SUPER simple to fill out, but when I go to "pick" the fields for the calculations, I only get the options to select or deselect ALL (rather than picking individual fields). 

I originally created this in Excel and converted to PDF, but I kept running into the same issue and when I tried to open the Excel file in Word, it told me the file was corrupted. So I recreated it in Word (from scratch) and converted it to a PDF file and I'm STILL not able to pick the fields to enter the calculations.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

[Bernd Alheit]

Put the mouse cursor on the field name and press the space bar.

[Ashez314]

I gasped so loudly at work when I tried this that my coworker asked me if I was okay....IT WORKED!!! Now, the only problem I'm having is getting it to select the actual box I need, as it is jumping down to the next row when I press the space bar so I can't check the first box.....and I also have to press "Deselect All" if I want to uncheck a box. Any ideas on how to go around either of these issues?

[Nesa Nurani · Accepted solution]

Try simplified field notations instead.

[Ashez314]

Do you know of any websites I can use to figure out how to use that? It looks like I have to write JavaScripts and I have NO experience with that... 😞

[Ashez314]

Disregard my last question! I found a website and it's SUPER SIMPLIFIED (go figure)!! Lol. Thank you so much!

[Nesa Nurani]

You can't click on these boxes at all?

I seems to don't have that problem with your file.

[JR Boulay]

It's a known bug, be sure to use an up to date version of Acrobat Pro.

[try67]

Click a bit off to the center of each check-box, or use the Space-bar key.