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Why "Copy selected fields across" is disabled in pdf form

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
January 24, 2023
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Hi There,

I have near about 100 pages which have same background/form. So I want to create a "Text Field" and want to copy this field across 100 pages and at the same time Text Field Name should be different (sequential to original text field name) across pages so that they can't copy the enterned text in one page over multiple pages.

If I use "Duplicate across pages" option, that text field is creating over 100 pages but there name are keeping same, so after creating changing their names take too many times. So, I want to use "Create Multiple Copies>Copy selected field across" option. But surprisingly that option is disabled/greyed out. Can anyone tell why it may be disabled in my case? Please see the attached screenshot for your convenience.

thankyou

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Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

You can change the first entry. The second entry is disabled because there is no space for a additional field.

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

Try this:

Delete the text field and create a new field.

infomamunAuthor

Inspiring

Could not understand clearly. Did you mean that the text field is somehow corrupted? If so, I have tried by creating a new text field but that failed also.

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

Have you tried it with a other document?

try67

Community Expert

There's no built-in tool to do what you want (assuming the fields detection wizard didn't work).

You can use a script, though, to rename the duplicates fields so that they have unique names. Well, actually, you can't rename them directly, but you can re-create them using unique names.

I've created a (paid-for) tool that does just that, if you're interested: https://www.try67.com/tool/acrobat-rename-duplicate-fields-to-unique-fields

infomamunAuthor

Inspiring

Hello There
There is a built in tool in Acrobat DC Pro, I attached a screenshot in the
question. Please check that.

ABDULLAH MAMUN-UR-RASHID

try67

Community Expert

As JR wrote, this tool only creates fields on the same page as the original one.

JR Boulay

Community Expert

"Duplicate across page" can't rename the field.

"Create multiple copies" works on the current page only. In your capture the item is greyed out because there is not enought space to duplicate the selected field on the right side.

Did you try the automatic detection?

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe

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