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July 14, 2021
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Prepare Form - Hide fields not selected

  • July 14, 2021
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Hello!  I created a fillable form with Prepare Form, when testing and filling it out, once I was finished filling and selecting the dropdown fields, I went to save the form and it saves all the blank answers as well.  I would like the entire form to be blank except the fields I filled in or selected.  Is there something I am missing in the properties?

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    try67
    try67
    Community Expert
    July 15, 2021

    Of course it saves the blank values, too... They are values, after all. What do you want it to show, instead?

    Or do you mean that you want to remove the fields and convert them to static contents? If so, you can flatten the file, or set the fields to read-only.

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    defaultkzfzsscg74vjAuthor
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    July 16, 2021

    I want the values to be available to choose, but when the document is saved it only saves the values that were selected.

    try67
    try67
    Community Expert
    July 19, 2021

    The same way how have you added the other entries


    Not quite. You can't add a truly blank entry via the Acrobat UI. It has to be done using a script.

    What you can do, though, is add an item with a single space.

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