Fields not shaded by default

[brittanyc13969752]

At some point in the past, I had made a PDF form and the fields were shaded a blue color so a user could see where the entry fields are.

I am now using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2015 release on Windows 10 and the fields are defaulting to not being shaded. I tried using the properties box to shade the fields with the option of being visible but not printing, but that also results in the entered text not printing either.

How do I get shaded fields by default that don't print but allow the text entered in them to print?

Thanks for your help.

[George_Johnson · Accepted solution]

The shading is due to a user preference setting, not some property of the fields. SO if a user chooses to turn on field highlighting, the fields will have the shading. The preference setting can be found here: Edit > Preferences > Forms > Highlight Color > Show border hover colors for fields

even though the description doesn't match the effect.

You can control this setting via JavaScript, so your form could be set up to enable highlighting and set it back to the original setting when it closes, or prompt the user to turn it on.

Previous versions of Acrobat/Reader included a button in the document message bar (purple or green) that toggled field highlighting.

[brittanyc13969752]

This did exactly what I was looking for, thank you!