Help: Text duplicates in all form fields

[Guest]

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?

[George_Johnson · Accepted solution]

This is how PDF forms behave if the fields names are the same, so you just need to change their names in Acrobat so they are all different.

[Gustavo.Macias]

k...but, how? 😕

[Test Screen Name]

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.

[Chan5C73]

Can this be performed in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC?

[Test Screen Name]

"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.  

[Chan5C73]

Does this mean forms can only be acccessed via Acrobat Pro DC?

[try67]

If by "accessed" you mean "edited", then yes. Although it can be done with any version of Acrobat, Pro or Standard, but not with Acrobat Reader.

[T_Hunter]

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?

[Bernd Alheit]

Can you share the form?

[T_Hunter]

It’s a work in progress and I’m a novice, but here you go...

[Bernd Alheit]

To share file you can use Tools > Send & Track.

[T_Hunter]

Thank you

Shared Files - Acrobat.com

[T_Hunter]

I solved my problem. Operator error. Thank you!

[matthews69870345]

How did you solve this issue? I have the same issue.

[ds0908]

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. 

[try67]

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.

[imaggiej]

Yes, I'm having the same issue and need to know how to fix it

[try67]

See above. You need to rename them.

[defaulthf9wvpmsystj]

how did u fix it 

[paulf50072823]

Totally it! Assign them different names and boom, fixed. George is right!

[cannady]

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. 

[try67]

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.

[Lisa5ECF]

I'm having this issue also, and all the fields are titled something different. Any other ideas?

[try67]

You'll need to share the file with us for more help with it.