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Tabbing in a Fillable Form

Community Beginner ,
Aug 24, 2020 Aug 24, 2020

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When I try to use tab to navigate the fillable form from one section to the next it selects the top of the page instead of the next fillable section. How do I get this to work? I need to tab from one section to the next.

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Community Expert ,
Aug 24, 2020 Aug 24, 2020

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Is there are form field at the top of the page? If so, then the tab order in your form needs to be fixed. You can do that by re-ordering the form fields in the right hand pane when you are in the form editor. Just drag and drop them into the correct order, and you should be able to tab through your form. 

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Hello! From what I can see there is no form field above the page - There are email links in the top paragraph though. I've got everything numbered but it will not tab to the next in order from any one section. 

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Is this a form you created? It looks like the links were created using buttons (they may not look like buttons, but that does not mean that the functionality is not proivded by a button that has no appearance). So when you tab through the form, you end up going from the previous form field to the next, which happens to the the button/link at the top. If you can edit the file, you may want to replace that button with a true link. If you cannot edit the file because you are not the author, you are unfortunately out of luck, unless the original author decides to change the form. 

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Community Beginner ,
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A college handed the pdf over to be made into a fillable form.
The only fields in the document are the 27 that I've created. The email links don't register as a traditional links - I can't go to "Edit" and move the link around or change the url or delete it. I figured it was more a Windows recognition of an email.  

I tried filling in some of the fillable secitons and it works now. Adobe's weird. 

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They are probably ad-hoc links created by the application. You can disable it by going to Edit - Preferences - General and ticking off "Create links from URLs". Note that this is a local setting, it's not saved as a part of the file, so if someone else opens it on a different machine they might still be there...

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Links are also included in the tab order, after all fields, and it can't be changed.

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