When filling in the PDF form fields (of the PDF fillable form that I created), the text duplicates into every other field in the PDF, regardless of which box you type into. Help?
If you don't care what the new field names are, and just want them to be unique, you can use this other (paid-for) tool I've created, which will automatically rename all duplicate fields so that they have unique names:
Select each form field in turn in the Form editor, click on Propertioes, change the name. Repeat for each field, whether there are 10 fields or 10,000 fields.
"Can this be performed in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC?". No. Reader can't be used to make forms, nor change a form design. If someone sent you a form that does this, they made it wrong.
I have this same problem in Acrobat DC and changing the field names has not solved the problem. I've deleted the boxes and recreated them, but still have the problem. Ideas?
Did you ever get an answer to your question? I had a form that was working perfectly, and then all of a sudden, I typed a number in one field, and it would pop up in a differently named field.
If that's happening then either they do have the same field name, or there's a script that copies it from one field to another. Share the file for further help.
It would be great if Adobe DC, not Reader would provide a way to fill a table in a form with auto-incremented field names for each row in a column. For example the columns would be Product, Serial and Expiration Date and there would be 10 rows of duplicate fields named for each of the columns incremented by 1. Product01, Product02, etc. Detection of a table might require a rudimentary table creation feature.
You can do that using the Create Multiple Fields command. Create the first row of the table, select all the fields (in Edit Form mode), then right-click one of them and select this command. Enter the number of fields to create, play around with the offset settings and when you click OK it will generate uniquely named copies of the original fields.
It worked! The forst one I had named Date Row 1.0 I duplicated it down by option selecting "crete multiple copies. I tuped in how many accross or down. The duplicated field automaticall named itself Date Row 1.1 and so on!
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