Change text to uppercase in a PDF Form

[Guest]

Hi,

Im very inexperienced in Adobe and have recently begun creating some forms for users to fill in.

I need to know how I can make the field automatically change what ever has been written in a text box to uppercase, and also if its possible just to change the first letter to upper case.

any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[try67 · Accepted solution]

You can use the custom format script, like this:

To convert the inserted value to all upper-case:

event.value = event.value.toUpperCase();

To convert just the first letter to upper-case:

event.value = event.value.substring(0,1).toUpperCase() + event.value.substring(1);

[Guest]

Thanks for the super fast response try67, i will give it a go now and see how it works.

On a different note, is there any way to export(or update) the filled data to a .csv file

[try67]

Yes, in Acrobat X go to Tools - Forms - More Form Options - Manage Form

Data - Import Data or Export Data

[Guest]

worked GREAT!! U saved me a lot of headache, thanks again.

Final question, is it possible to have the first letter of every field in the form be capital? or must I do the above forumla for individual fields?

[try67]

You need to apply it to each field separately, but this can also be done

with a script.

The best way is to place the code in a doc-level function, and then call

that function from the fields' formatting code.

[Guest]

all working now

Still cant figure out the export form filled data. When I select XML it starts to OCR and takes a while as it does the whole document. I only want the filled data to be exported to .csv

[default2jitpk6xv1zx]

I figured out how to do it for each field separately, but I don't know how to do it for multiple fields at a time. Can you explain more? Thanks.

[giovalfie]

Guys, someone could be so kind to share me a PDF example with the working script please?

[Guest]

This really helped but I ran into one issue.

It works great for 1 word that has been input as lowercase.  Is there an option for inputs of all caps? or if there is an hyphenated name?

The examples below arent producing the desired results.  Is this possible?

THOMAS should change to Thomas but it remains THOMAS

thomas jones should change to Thomas Jones but it changes to Thomas jones

thomas-jones should change to Thomas-Jones but it changes to Thomas-jones

Thanks!

JT

[try67]

It's possible, but it will require a much more complex script. You would need to first split the name string using a regular expression with all of the characters that you want to use as the delimiters, then edit each "word" (ie, item in the array of the split method), and then re-combine the values in the array using the same delimiters as before...

[Guest]

Yeah, thats a little too intricute. 

What about the all caps to proper?  Is that one difficult too?  i.e.  THOMAS beinf forced to Thomas.  Is that easily workable?

JT

[try67]

Sure. You can use this code for that:

var name = event.value;
var words = name.split(" ");
for (var i in words) words = words.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + words.substring(1).toLowerCase();
event.value = words.join(" ");

[shawne8709770]

Help! I'm trying to export the field data to a csv and keep the case. I'm running the script below to change case but when I export as a csv it places the test back to the original input case.

[pirj56149336]

And I want to Capatilize each word then what is the Formula

[pirj56149336]

And I want to Capatilize each word then what is the Formula

[Bernd Alheit]

Look at reply of try67.

[pirj56149336]

please provide javascript to change it to proper case

[Bernd Alheit]

Look at the replies!

[pirj56149336]

i am a new user cant find replies please copy paste in my reply

[Bernd Alheit]

You can see the replies here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/Acrobat/Change-text-to-uppercase-in-a-PDF-Form/td-p/3941562

[pirj56149336]

But Dear it does not capatilize first letter in each word it only capatilize 1st word of a sentence

[pirj56149336]

And I want to Capatilize each word then what is the Formula

[ScreenNameName]

Try67, 

Do you have a script to capitalize the first letter of every word in a string? 

For example: 

"1 first street" to "1 First Street"

[Bernd Alheit]

Look at reply of try67.

[ScreenNameName]

So as I read it, it requires a much more complex script. 

and this script is just for "Proper sentencing" 

var name = event.value;

var words = name.split(" ");

for (var i in words) words = words.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + words.substring(1).toLowerCase();

event.value = words.join(" ");