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How to group fields when creating a fillable PDF?

New Here ,
Oct 25, 2019 Oct 25, 2019

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Hello,

I have a form in word that contains 3 check boxes in a row in sebsequent columns.  When I convert it to PDF, select Tools, select Create (from exisitng document, current document) it auto populates the fields it can recognize.  Luckily it recognizes the check boxes that I already have.  The problem is that the form recognizes one of the rows of check boxes as a group of check boxes but a different row of check boxes are not grouped together.  The grouped check boxes make it so that only one check box can be selected at a time.  The ungrouped check boxes gives the user the ability to chek multiple of the boxes.  When I am looking at the fields pain on the right hand side I can see the difference between the grouped check boxes and the check boxes without a group.  I want to know how to group specific fields together manually when converting it from word to PDF didn't automatically group them together.

 

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LEGEND ,
Oct 25, 2019 Oct 25, 2019

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Exclusionairy groups in Acrobat are created by giving the check boxs/radio buttons in the group the same name but heving each widgit export a different value.

 

The form wizard is not very bright, so we have to do edit several items on a form created with the wizard. 

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New Here ,
Oct 26, 2019 Oct 26, 2019

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I appreciate the quick reply.  I don't mind doing several edits to items after the wizard picked up 98% of the information correctly.  Can you walk me through how to make those edits?

 

I was thinking it would have been as simple as selecting the 3 Fields, right clicking, and choosing an option of "group together" or something like that. 

 

Thank you,

Aaron

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Oct 26, 2019 Oct 26, 2019

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To group the fields use the same name and different export values.

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