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I had an excel form that I made into a pdf. Now how do I make it fillable, so my agents can just put the information in. Sorry, still pretty new to this.
Watch some tutorials, then give it a try, come back if you get stuck.
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Watch some tutorials, then give it a try, come back if you get stuck.
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I am having an issue making my PDF, fillable for my client? The link provided is only showing how to make a PDF? What am I missing? TIA
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Yeah, it seeems that link is broken... Try this one: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/pdf-form-field-basics.html
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Hi Garyj,
Thank you for reaching out and hope you are doing well.
As you are looking for information on creating the PDF form in Acrobat, please refer to the information provided in the following help document: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/creating-distributing-pdf-forms.html
Hope the information helps.
Let us know if you have any questions or need any help.
Thanks,
Meenakshi
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OMG. This has been a very trying task. The links were of no help. I already knew how to make a PDF. I needed to make it where my client could fill out the information I was requesting. For anyone else needing help, here are the easy steps to take. It took me 2 seconds to do a task I have spent countless hours on. Hope this helps the next guy.
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Thank you garyj89170320 so much for this I have been aimlessly searching the internet for how to do this!
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It's all explained in the pages we linked to: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/create-form.html
This is the first link on the page I provided earlier.
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Thank you for sharing your shortcuts! Much easier than what I was finding on the internet.
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Thank you! This is such a better response! A lot easier than I thought!
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OMG Gary I agree it was until I came across this thread - LEGEND!!
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garyj89170320 THANK YOU! You have saved a lot of people a lot of time and frustration. Your question was simple and straight forward. Why couln't the support people answer correctly?
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What if I don't have Prepare Form in the Tools tab?
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What if I don't have Prepare Form in the Tools tab?
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You are probably using Adobe Acrobat Reader, not Pro.
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So Prepare Forms is only available on the Adobe Acrobat Pro and not the Adobe Acrobat Reader DC?
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Correct.
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I have Adobe Acrobat 9 pro Extended. I do not have "Prepare Form" under the Tools tab. So being that I have a Pro version and no "Prepare Form" under the Tools tab am I missing something or is there another way to convert a PDF to fillable in my Pro version ?
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I have Adobe Acrobat 9 pro Extended. I do not have "Prepare Form" under the Tools tab. So being that I have a Pro version and no "Prepare Form" under the Tools tab am I missing something or is there another way to convert a PDF to fillable in my Pro version ?
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Sorry, it's been many years since I used this old version and I don't recall exactly where all the tools are in it. You'll need to search the menus yourself, or find an old tutorial, to add form fields using it.
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Adobe still has the manual available:
https://help.adobe.com/archive/en_US/acrobat/9/professional/acrobat_pro_9.0_help.pdf
BTW, you should have a Forms menu right on the top. It should list the Forms Wizard and the other form tools there.
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The instructions you listed were pretty much on the link that Meenakshi supplied.
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Thank you so much! This was so simple to do and there are so many other explanations that were quite complicated online.
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Thank you!!! I have literally spent an hour just now trying to get this information. You simple steps got it done in 2 minutes.
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thank you for this, I dont know why adobe help couldnt have done what you just did, just post it up clear and simple. literally searching for ages, or reading pages and pages of unrelated stuff just to get to what you needed. thx.
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THANK YOU! I stumbled on how to do this once before last year, and I knew I should have written it down then, but I didn't, silly me. Got it now. Thanks again for YOUR diligence!