Fillable Form is no longer fillable

[BKFinancials]

Greetings, I was completing a form and when I first entered the sheet Adobe had all the fillable fields highlighted and I could fill out the fields throughout the whole document, suddenly the form appears to be flat and when I try and type in the boxes they are no longer highlighted (accessible) and my computer makes a error noise whenever I try to type something into the fields.   Did I toggle something? Help is greatly appreciated!

[Abambo]

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[Bernd Alheit]

May be that the fields are locked.

[Fleming36652793bdf5]

I had the same thing. The fields are not locked, they are still editable, but now the editable fields are not a blue background.  This occurred after using the US government mandated FinCen pdf form (https://boiefiling.fincen.gov/boir/pdf)  It changed some Adobe setting that I don't remember what it was and how to unchange it. Now it kind of hosed up Adobe going forward. 

[AkanchhaS · Accepted solution]

Hi BKFinancials

While adding the data into fields all of the sudden your form became flatten? Have you signed the document as well? At times applying the signature locks a document. If you did that, your document became secured and restricted to make any further change.

You have to start all over.

Thanks,

Akanchha

[BKFinancials]

Thank for your response.  I realized that once I saved the document it converted the fields to flat and I was unable to get it back to fillable.   I think the same thing happened when I also clicked the final signature tab also.  Signing throughout the form did not seem to have an impact.  I was, however, able to add text to the flat form.  It was not the same font as the fillable forms but at that point I was not going to start over...it was over 22 pages long!! 

Thanks for your help, much grattitude!