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

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
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.

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Meenakshi Negi

Community Manager

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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Dave22833028z2gh

Participant

Hello Adobe,

Respectfully none of this has resolved not having the capability to remove the blue highlights over variable text fields in forms. I can only do this through my preferences, which is easy. But, then when we send the completed forms to our clients they still see the text fields highlighted in blue. There isn't a way for the client to not see these blue highlighted fields unless they also remove the highlights through their own preferences. This is not practical when you have a long list of clients to send to that may or may not be willing to make these extra steps to hide the boxes. Why can't the default simply be set to NOT see these highlighted blue boxes? Could this be done? Thank you.

try67

Community Expert

You can embed a script in your file that will disable the Fields Highlighting whenever it is opened (using an Adobe viewer). However, it will also disable it for other files that are opened on that machine (since it's an app-setting, not a document-setting), so it's a good idea to at least notify the user of this change, or to reverse it when the file is closed.

The basic code that does it is this:

app.runtimeHighlight = false;

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Exuberant_grace5F8E

Participant

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

Participant

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

Amal.

Community Manager

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

Participant

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

Participant

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

Community Expert

This doesn't remove the highlights of form fields.

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Tashashash

Participant

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

ashutomi

Participating Frequently

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

Participant

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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AshutoshM

Adobe Employee

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

Community Expert

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

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TiMOTION3157172Author

Participant

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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