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June 23, 2023
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Getting back to a fillable form PDF, after editing

  • June 23, 2023
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I'm opening a PDF created by someone else in Acrobat Pro. The form has fillable fields which I want filled out. After filling them out, there's area that I need to edit, so I choose the edit button on the right and edit by adding text or modifying existing text. After finishing, I want to go back and alter or add to some of the existing fields, but can't do it (it wants to still edit them, which I don't want).

How do I get back the option to fill in the fields like I had before? Yes, I want to keep my edits.

 

I'm so frustrated with Adobes support after paying huge amounts of money for a subscription, only to get totally inadequate support from India where there's a huge language barrier, so if you're from India, don't answer this.

 

Larry

Creative Cloud Subscriber

Correct answer Bernd Alheit

With Tools > Prepare Form you can add and modify form fields.

3 replies

Participant
June 28, 2023

Tahnk you for this information and the reply .

 

mymilestonecard

LrrryoAuthor
Participating Frequently
July 2, 2023

I also found that you can "save as" and goes back to be able to fill in the forms.

Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
Bernd AlheitCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
June 26, 2023

With Tools > Prepare Form you can add and modify form fields.

LrrryoAuthor
Participating Frequently
June 28, 2023

Bernd,

That works THX!

 

Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 24, 2023

Close the Edit mode.

LrrryoAuthor
Participating Frequently
June 26, 2023

Tried that, doesn't work, but thx.

 

Larry