Please help!? PDF Form Creation: How do you create number fields (phone numbers, dates, money amounts, etc.)?

[martinai40894218]

Please help?! I'm a little new to this process, but working on a deadline. Yikes.

I'm creating a fillable PDF form in Acrobat Pro DC and can't make the text fields that should only take numerical entries format as such (numbers).

Under the Text Field Properties/General/Filed Type, I chose Text but there are no numbers options after that in the Text dropdown.

Under Text Field Properties at the top of the box, there are only General, Appearance, Position and Options tabs. There are no Actions, Format, Validate or Calculate tabs (not sure why that is either because in the tutorial, they are shown as options too).

I have even watched PDF Form Creation tutorials that seem to say there are many different advanced number field properties that can be applied (Number: Decimal Places, Separator Style, Currency Symbol, Symbol Location, Negative Number Style, Percentage, Date, Time, Special: Zip Code, etc.), but when I'm using the Acrobat Pro DC program to create this form using the "Prepare Form" wizard, as the tutorials say to do, I can't find anything where you can change the text field to be a numbers field with those multiple number-formatting options.  Please assist me, if possible.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks!!!  -Martina

[try67]

Click on Tools - Prepare Form and then click on "More" at the right side of the window and then on "Revert to Acrobat Form".

[martinai40894218]

Oh, thank you!

I think it worked.

Do you know if "reverting" it changes anything else in a way that could be negative, and do I need to do/save anything about the PDF form differently because of that?

Next, I have to make it ADA compliant for use on the Web.  What fun.

Thanks again, try67, so much, for your help!

-Martina

[try67]

No, not really. All it does is revert it to a normal form from a form that's set up for signing via Adobe Sign.

You can still add digital signature fields to it and have it signed that way.

[martinai40894218]

Great!

Thank you so much.

Would you mind if I retain your information for future reference if needed?

I’ve been assigned a project to build a bunch of forms and it’s really a learning experience!

Thank you, again.

-Martina

[try67]

Sure, no problem.

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