Deleting Multiple Textboxes in Adobe Pro in one attempt

Question

At present, we are working on a project where we need to create fillable Adobe forms with texboxes and some dropdown menus and are working on Adobe Acrobat Pro. However, we have the following issue when we create pdf forms.

First we convert a Form from Word format into Pdf format and after selecting "Prepare Form" in Adobe AcrobatPro to insert/modify/delete the auto-created fields (textboxes, checkboxes, etc). During this conversion there are fields which are created on multiple pages as textboxes and they either need ot be changed ot modified per the page. In order to proceed, I delete them all and then re-create them which is very time consuming.

Is there a quicker way to select the textboxes first and delete them in one go, rather than doing them page by page?

Thank you

try67 · Answer

To avoid having to do that, and to create the fields with 100% accuracy you would need to use a script (and to set up the Word file in a specific way in advance), such as these (paid-for) tools I've created:

Convert Wingdings Characters to Check-Boxes or Radio-Buttons: https://www.try67.com/tool/acrobat-reader-convert-wingdings-characters-to-check-boxes-or-radio-buttons
Convert Underscores to Text Fields: https://www.try67.com/tool/acrobat-reader-convert-underscores-to-text-fields

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