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Alex27563047rd18
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January 19, 2023
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How do hide its tooltips text from displaying when the cursor/mouse moves over a form field?

  • January 19, 2023
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I have created fillable form with many form fields. I don't want the Tooltips text to display when my mouse or cursor moves over a form field as the text only make sense to me. How can I prevent it from displaying? Can anyone help? 

 

Thanks!! 

 

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JR Boulay
JR Boulay
Community Expert
January 19, 2023

Tooltips Remover is a free Action for Acrobat Pro: https://www.abracadabrapdf.net/?p=876

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe
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    Alex27563047rd18Author
    New Participant
    January 20, 2023

    @try67 @JR Boulay I tried both solutions and they all worked! Many thanks to you all!

    Alex 

      try67
      try67
      Community Expert
      January 19, 2023

      You can use this code to remove the tooltips from all the fields in your file:

      for (var i=0; i<this.numFields; i++) {
	var fname = this.getNthFieldName(i);
	var f = this.getField(fname);
	if (f==null) continue;
	f.userName = "";
}

      You can run it from the JS Console, a button, or even an Action (the latter will allow you to process multiple files in a single process).

        jane-e
        jane-e
        Community Expert
        January 19, 2023

        @Alex27563047rd18 

         

        Edit the form fields and delete the tooltips text.

         

        Jane

         

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        Alex27563047rd18Author
        New Participant
        January 19, 2023

        Many thanks Jane. 

        Is there a way to mass update the Tooltips of multiple form fields? Or do I have to delete them one by one? 

         

        And is there any impact to delete the Tooltip of a text form field? 

         

        Thanks again! 

        jane-e
        jane-e
        Community Expert
        January 19, 2023

        @Alex27563047rd18 

         

        You're welcome, Alex.

         

        If you are putting the PDF on the web or a server, proper tooltips are required for Section 508, as they are read out loud by screen readers to folks who are blind. If it's just you, they are optional.

         

        I am not in my office now, but many things can be done on multiple fields if they are the same kind of field. You don't have to close Properties ever as you are formatting fields. Just keep it open for the duration.

         

        Try muliple-selecting by dragging across the fields (starting a little off to the side) or by Shift+Clicking. Try it with three or four fields first to see if it works. If you can delete the tooltip, you succeeded. Otherwise, you have to do it one at a time — unless someone steps up and says they have written a script that can do that. Not all scripts are free — some are sold, and they will tell you if that is so.

         

        Jane

         

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