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EMKZB
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June 5, 2023
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Fill in form? Anyone? Bueller....Bueller...

  • June 5, 2023
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Hi there, I hope someone can help. My boss is having me seperate and save employee training pdf's in our system. He is wanting me to do something that he calls a 'fill in form' for any training sheets that have more than one employee on them. He wants to be able to have that document come up in the system (by doing a search in Windows file explorer) under the employee's name on the sheet. Does anyone here know what he is talking about? I've tried looking up on how to do it but I'm not finding anything. I don't want to have to save the one document numerous times for each employee on the list. It should be saved as "Group Training (training type) and then when you type in the name in file explorer, each different employee will bring that file up to prove they've taken the course.

 

I really hope this makes sense to you guys. 

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    try67
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    try67Community Expert
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    June 5, 2023

    Instead of us guessing, why not ask your boss what he means exactly, maybe also with a demonstration of how they expect it to work. Based on that we might be able to give some tips on how to do it.

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      EMKZBAuthor
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      June 20, 2023

      I apologize for the delay. Work issues. 

       

      So I did speak to my boss and he stated that he wants the pdf to be found using the Windows search box, not Adobe, using each employee's name that is in the pdf. For example, there are three different employees in one training record. He wants to be able to have the pdf saved without having to use all three different names in the save name. He is apparently not Adobe literate but states you can do it by creating an 'invisible fill in form' where I can input each employee name and when all is said and done, when a name from the list is seached for in the Windows search box, it will come up. I'm beginning to think he was told be someone else this could be done and he is not 100% sure its true. 

       

      I attached an edited copy of the pdf I am working on. I've got tons of these to do. IF anyone has ANY idea on how to do this or even a different approach to what he is asking for, please help. I don't think I can be any clearer on how he wants it to be searched under each employee name.  Excuse me while I go bang my head against a wall. 

       

       

      Document Geek
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      Document GeekCommunity Expert
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      June 5, 2023

      Well if it's a fill-in form, it needs to be password protected somehow, so not jus anyone can go and type their name in the form.

       

      And when the employees want to prive they've taken the course, their name will be on the form (as inputted by whoever is incharge of the training, I suppose).

       

      Asfar as how to do a search for text contents using Windows Explorer, that I can't help with. But here's how you can do a search for text contents with Acrobat/Reader.

       

      Use the Advanced Find mode in Acrobat. Shift + Cmd/Ctrl + F

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