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Anonymous
November 15, 2017
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Creating Bullets in Text Fields

  • November 15, 2017
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My office has Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.  I have created a 3-page form that contains several text fields.  Some of these fields require entries in bullet format.

Other than cutting and pasting from MS Word, is there a way to:

  1. Have text field default to bullet format
  2. Create bullets in a text field

I am finding a lot of forums on how to create bullets, but none of them are in a text field.

Thank you!

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Correct answer gkaiseril

Within PDF form field types there is no bullet point option.

You can use the <Alt> + <Numeric Keypad Keys>0149 to add a bullet point. Or you can cut and paste from the CharMap utility.

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gkaiserilCorrect answer
Inspiring
November 15, 2017

Within PDF form field types there is no bullet point option.

You can use the <Alt> + <Numeric Keypad Keys>0149 to add a bullet point. Or you can cut and paste from the CharMap utility.

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Anonymous
November 15, 2017

That's what I feared.  Thank you, though.

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gkaiseril
Inspiring
January 9, 2018

Is there a way to make sure that the bulleted lists appear in a mult-line field? When I tried to preview it, the field would allow me to enter items on multiple lines, but when I tabbed to the next field, the bullet only showed up next to the first line.

Inputting information:

After tabbing to next field:


The OP asked how to prefix the value of a text field with a bullet point. That is what the script does. If the field is not empty it prefixes a bullet point symbol to the value entered into the field. For a multi-line field, the entire entry into the field is the value of the field. including the new lines.

If you want this to be for each new line, then more scripting will be needed and it may require testing for blank lines so the bullet point is not added to the blank lines.

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