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edwardp87376527
New Participant
December 6, 2018
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Auto fill from previous text typed

  • December 6, 2018
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I use Adobe Acrobat Reader DC to fill and sign a PDF form that I created.  I use this same form for about 80 clients and quite a bit of the text I type is similar from file to file.  It use to remember previous text I'd typed and prompt me with a drop down list of text that I could select for an autofill.  Now it's not doing that.  How can I get this feature reactivated?

Thanks.

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      Correct answer try67

      Edit - Preferences - Forms, change Auto-Complete from Off to one of the other options.

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      faizan323941920wpn
      New Participant
      September 19, 2023

      I am using adobe acrobat when I edit the document then auto type this character ~~~~~~~~~~~~ 

      Kindly guide

       

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      darkmoyle69
      New Participant
      December 13, 2022

      I tried the Preferences thing and it seemed to work, then seemed to stop.

       

      I just went back in and Unchecked "Remember Numerical Data" and it seems to be working now for text, but not numbers.

       

      May decide to reinstall and see if that helps.

       

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      defaultnt86nmenog8r
      New Participant
      October 29, 2021

      Same thing happened to me.  Tried the Edit preferrences tip.  It was already set to allow it to auto fill.  Quite frustrating.  This happened twice.  Any help is appreciated.

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        jerryb21992160
        Participating Frequently
        October 29, 2021

        It started working again and was fine for several weeks. Then yesterday fill and sign stopped working again and none of my saved words would show up. I've been using it for years and have taught others how to use it so I'm no newbie, fill and sign just sporadically stops working!  Come on Adobe, fix your product!!!!  

         

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        defaultnt86nmenog8r
        New Participant
        October 29, 2021

        Yup!  Me too.  Started working again a few weeks ago and now stopped!  Frustrating.  

        try67
        try67Correct answer
        Community Expert
        December 7, 2018

        Edit - Preferences - Forms, change Auto-Complete from Off to one of the other options.

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        jerryb21992160
        Participating Frequently
        September 25, 2021

        Are there any other options that would cause my Auto-Complete to stop working?  I have Auto-Complete set to Basic (tried Advanced too) but it simply stopped working yesterday.  This is the main reason for me using Adobe Reader and now it's not working.

         

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        Lisa25237293pqxf
        New Participant
        July 13, 2022

        No, mine just suddenly started working again without any changes having been done to it or my documents. Adobe's technical support was USELESS on this issue. All they ever did, repeatedly, was refer me to this forum.  I had another issue that Adobe never helped on too.  If I had a choice I'd stop using all my Adobe products due to their terrible lack of post-sales support.

         


        My stopped working as well.  

         

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