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keithk24724942
Participant
April 21, 2015
Question

Why do my fill-able PDF forms auto fill every box with whatever I type in the FIRST box?

  • April 21, 2015
  • 3 replies
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Every time I put information into any field in the document, It fills every field with what I put in, no matter what field or order I put it in. I need this document filled in by today, and it will not let me!

3 replies

Participant
July 24, 2020

Successful workaround for some forms:

Only works if repeated entries are on separate pages.
My entry on p1 was repeated on fields in page 2.
I extracted p2 and saved as new pdf "Form p2"
I resaved p1, after deleting p2.
I then filled out p1 pdf, p2 pdf, saved each and recombined into single PDF doc to be emailed.

Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 25, 2020

This will work when you combine the files in a portfolio.

gmizen
Participant
March 29, 2017

I'm looking for a way to automate a way to fill out a contract I have on Adobe Acrobat Reader. Can someone help me figure out a way to auto fill this document?

try67
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 29, 2017

You can't do it with Reader. It's possible with Acrobat, but would require

renaming all the fields.

Inspiring
April 21, 2015

You just need to give each field a unique field name.

keithk24724942
Participant
April 21, 2015

What do you mean?

As soon as I type anything to any box it fills all of them with that field.

Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 21, 2015

Did you create the form? If not inform the creator of the form.