Using one form to fill out other selected forms

[christopherp18373243]

So here is my dilemma.  I have one master for which gathers a lot of information, such as demographic info, personal info ect.  What I would like to know, is there a way to take that master form and have it fill out other forms based on selecting what I need?  I shall give an example.  Lets call the master form "Form A" and I have forms 1 though 5.  I ask someone to fill out form A and then need forms 1,3, and 5 filled out.  How can I have a forms selection to fill out just those other three and only print those three rather then say all six?  And just for information there are a whole lot more then just 5 forms which I would need to have access too and each other form is multiple pages so just dropping everything into one workbook is not an option.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

There are several ways of doing it. The easiest is to make sure the fields in all files are named then same, and then you would be able to export the data from the "main" file to a standalone fdf or txt file, which you can then import into the other files.

[krisfuehr]

I had the same question.  I see the import/export answer but there must be an easier way to link the files together.

I think Adobe should make this easier than import/export. 

Think of all of mortgage forms, etc where signers need to populate their name and address multiple times.  Would probably make an impact on national productivity if this could happen and be more obvious. 

I hope Adobe's feedback sniffers find this:  Again, Adobe should make autofilling repeated information across forms easier than import/export.

Fingers crossed. 

[try67]

This is not very likely. Every file is going to have a different structure and different field names.

[krisfuehr]

I'm creating all of the forms myself, so I will have the same field names. 

[try67]

In that case try enabling the Auto Complete function (Edit - Preferences - Forms). It can also be done using a script.