Stop text fields from auto-merging

[CoolMoeZ]

I am creating a form with labels next to check boxes. I needed to move some objects around. A) Why can I no longer group select by dragging around multiple objects? Now I have to move each object seperatly?

B) Why on earth do these individual text boxes keep automatcally merging into one another when I DO NOT WANT THAT!!!! How do I make that stop? TIA!

[try67]

My previous reply here was not relevant to the question asked, which is: Why?

The answer is because these "text boxes" you're seeing don't really exist in the file. Acrobat interprets the text and tries to combine various parts of it to chunks that make sense, but this is not a 100% accurate process, and can never be. So if it sees two strings close to each other it "thinks" they probably belong together and "merges" them to one element. If they are further apart it might "think" they are not related and keep them as separate objects. This is a by-product of the fact that PDF files were never meant to be edited in this way in the first place.

[Josie5F8C]

I have the same issue, when adding text content, then closing the document and upon opening the document, the add text content is mergered with other text content.
Address text content all one big text conent.   no matter how many times you separte the text, each time you open the document Adobe creates one big text area.  One of the worst features I've ever had or seen.

[try67]

See above. There's no real solution, nor is it a "feature". You're trying to do something with a PDF file that was not meant to be done, so it's going to be tricky, at the best of times.