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Converting Word Checkbox to PDF

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
August 3, 2024
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When I converted Word docs to PDFs, Acrobat was used to recognize the checkboxes. It does not anymore, and now I have to add checkboxes to pages of my documents manually... I'm talking almost 100 checkboxes, and it takes A LOT of time to have to manually add and arrange them properly.
PLEASE How can I get it to automatically recognize checkboxes from Word again?

Thank you.

JR Boulay

Adobe Expert

You should see Episodes 52 & 53 of this podcast, what applies to InDesign also applies to Word:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-indesigner/id96779509

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe

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Tariq Ahmad

Community Manager

Hi @Zoei,

Sorry for the delayed response and troubled experience. Thanks for reaching out and providing your valuable feedback.

Would it be possible for you to share that Word file with us? We would like to review and share our findings with you, and if need be, I will raise a product improvement request with the dev team.

Ideally, when you create a Word docx file, launch Acrobat > Prepare Form > Select a file, and ensure "Auto-detect form fields is ON." Also, under preference, ensure "Automatically detect form fields" is checked.

Let us know if you have more questions.

~Tariq

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GBsie

New Participant

Hi Tariq

my Acrobat is set as you showed but it doesn't recognize any word's field other than a checkbox that is translated into a text box

New Participant

Hi

Thanks for reporting the issue. We are able to reproduce this issue at our end and have logged a bug on engineering team to prioritize for fixing. We will keep you posted on the progress.

Thanks for your patience.

Kind regards,

Tanvi

Has there been any movement on the check boxes converting to pdf form boxes? I am in the middle of a large document with a lot of check boxes!

try67

Adobe Expert

The only way to do it reliably is by using a script, which can recognize certain characters and add fields on top of them.

I've developed a (paid-for) tool that does just that, and will convert certain Wingdings characters to check-box or radio-button fields with 100% accuracy. You can find it here: https://www.try67.com/tool/acrobat-reader-convert-wingdings-characters-to-check-boxes-or-radio-buttons

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