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TiMOTION3157172
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February 5, 2020
Question

Getting rid of the blue text boxes in Acrobat Pro DC when using prepare forms tool

  • February 5, 2020
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I've created a Fillable form using prepare form in Acrobat Pro DC and used added text fields and it works well in the preview except that all of the text boxes are blue. I would like my users who are going to fill out the form to not see the blue text boxes; the text boxes should just look transparent (like nothing is there) until they put their cursor in the answer area.

 

Does anyone know how to edit/fix this? I'm not a proficient user of Adobe so I may be making newbie mistake!

 

 

Thanks.

    6 replies

    Meenakshi Negi
    Community Manager
    Meenakshi NegiCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    May 2, 2024

    Hi All,

     

    Thank you for your patience so far.

     

    The issue has been resolved. Please reboot the machine and then relaunch Acrobat.

    Then, wait for some time and try to fill out the forms again. 

     

    Let us know how it goes.

     

    Thanks,

    Meenakshi

     

     

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    Dale25793840jp2b
    New Participant
    June 4, 2024

    Hello, While this did come, and then go away, it has appeared again and I cannot get rid of the blue boxes.  I just want to use my mouse as I have in the past and not be required to tab through my whole document.

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      Ryan37859820byus
      New Participant
      June 5, 2024

      Also cannot get rid of blue boxes. When adding text into a fillable text box the box hides it when finished, shows back up when when clicking back into text box but shows a blank box when printing document.

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        Exuberant_grace5F8E
        New Participant
        April 22, 2024

        What are these dark blue boxes that I haven't created and now appearing when I opened fillable forms in Adobe Acrobat. I haven't experienced this before. 

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        Toni5E71
        New Participant
        April 23, 2024

        I'm struggling with this same thing. I've never seen this before when I have made fillable forms. 

        Amal.
        Community Manager
        Amal.Community Manager
        Community Manager
        April 23, 2024

        Hi @Toni5E71 

         

        This is a known issue and our engineering team is working on it.

         

        The fix will be available in future updates.

         

        Thanks for your understanding

         

        ~Amal

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        Amanda36066816gziw
        New Participant
        March 14, 2024

        Hi, on the contary. How do I get the blue boxes vs a transparent box that only turns blue when its hovered? I'd like the page to show the blue boxes upon opening.

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          Tashashash
          New Participant
          September 7, 2021

          I spend almost an hour figuring it out so here's the solution. None of thye solution on this page helped me im using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC heres to get rid of annoying blue boxes

          View--> Show/Hide--> Rulers and Grids ---> Grid. 

          Have a good day. 

            Bernd Alheit
            Bernd Alheit
            Community Expert
            September 7, 2021

            This doesn't remove the highlights of form fields. 

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              Tashashash
              New Participant
              September 7, 2021

              My apologies, I thought we were talking about blue the grid here. 

                ashutomi
                ashutomi
                Participating Frequently
                February 5, 2020

                Hi Brianne,

                The setting that you’re looking for is user specific. This means that you can change the preferences the way you want to see the form on your computer, but not on the user’s machine.

                You may do so by going to Edit>Preferences>Forms Uncheck the option of Show Border Hover color for fields.

                Unfortunately, you can only change the color of the form fields that will appear when the user clicks on it, but the Blue fields that appear are the default setting and can only be changed by the user and not the sender of the form.

                I hope that this answers your query.

                Thanks

                  Bill Brownell
                  Bill Brownell
                  New Participant
                  August 1, 2023

                  This works. But it removes the blue border hover from all documents. Is there a way to remove the blue on a document by document basis?

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                  Adobe Employee
                  AshutoshM
                  Adobe Employee
                  August 1, 2023

                  The preferences are set for the application, this means it will be applied to all the documents opened in Acrobat with those preferences. However, you can toggle it if you want to see the blue color on fields on some documents. That's the only workaround. 

                  Bernd Alheit
                  Bernd Alheit
                  Community Expert
                  February 5, 2020

                  In the preferences of Acrobat you can disable the field highlighting.

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                  TiMOTION3157172Author
                  New Participant
                  February 5, 2020

                  Thank You for the information....Now if I do that for my settings on my computer will it show up as a transparent field when I send it out to others who have not change their settings?

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