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How do you DISABLE the auto-selection of the EDIT TEXT & IMAGES tool in PREPARE FORM mode

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
February 13, 2020
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The most recent version of Adobe Pro, when I am working on creating forms, if I accidently click on something other then a form field it puts me into EDIT TEXT & IMAGES mode - which is making it so much harder to work on forms. I'm constantly having to click the SELECTION cursor to go back to PREPARE FORM mode. If I am in PREPARE FORM mode I would love to just work on forms not editing the text on the page. Can I disable this feature somewhere? Very frustating! See example below.

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JR Boulay

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gauravs43202023

Adobe Employee

Hello,

Sorry for the inconvenience.

You can use the below registry details to disable this dynamic switching between text and form fields based on user click.

In case, you face any issues in setting the registry, refer https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/new-feature-unified-edit-text-and-form-fields/m-p/10684483?page=1#M223153

Please let us know if you still face issues even after setting the registry.

Registry details :

Win name: ADC4275035_ClickEdit
Mac name: ADC4275035_ClickEdit
Data type: Win DWORD, MAC Boolean
Win HKCU path: NA
Mac User path : N/A
HKLM path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\FeatureState
Mac lock file/path: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat/DC/Preferences/com.adobe.Acrobat.FeatureState.plist
Default: ON
Possible values: 0 to disable and 1 to enable
Product version introduced? Oct 2019
Applies to both Acrobat and Reader? Only Acrobat
Tracks: Cont
GUI: (any UI in product?): No

Thanks,

Gaurav

try67

Community Expert

I hope Adobe are going to add this as a settable preference, and not send people to the Registry to disable this "feature".

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

What exact version of Adobe is this fix from? On the version I am running (Version 2020.005.30314) it is not there and when I go to Check for Updates it says that there are no updates.

I use version 22.001.20085

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