How to do a Find and Replace of a text word with a form field?

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May 20, 2024
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I want to have a form field where user enters their Company Name and then throughout a long/large doc. the word Company is replaced with the same form field, so it populates with their company name throughout the doc. Please help me learn if this is possible/how do it, so I don't have to manually change over 200 words to a form field... Thanks!

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Thom Parker

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In every location where the company name appears, place a form field with the name "CompanyName". Make sure all form fields have the same name.

This should help:

https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/Editing-Fields-Properties.cfm

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

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Jennifer37519130r1mwAuthor

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Thanks Thom - I was looking for a way to replace the text with a form field in a find/replace way - so that I do not have to place a form field with the name manually in 200 places... is that possible? Or do I have to insert each field manually?

try67

Community Expert

If that text is unique you can use a script to find all instances of it and place a text field over them. It's not a trivial task, though.

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