When creating a field all other fields populate same answer, how do I change that?

[mrscaston]

I have a form that I am converting into a fillable form and it has fields such as time, date, youth, or family and I've created a field for each line item.  There are 17 fields for each name and I created the first one and clicked copy and paste for the rest.  Now when I save the document and type in data to test the form, anything I put in the first field copies into all the other fields.  How do I fix it so that each field box has it's only information and does not copy the exact same information 16 times?

[try67]

You need to rename the fields you pasted. Each one needs to have a unique

name.

[mrscaston]

Thanks for your response.  Right now as it stands it says date#0, date#1, date#2 etc etc.  Are you saying they all need to be different such as date, date two, date three (something along that line) or each line needs to say like date, apple, orange etc?  Does it duplicate because they all have the word date in it?

[try67]

It duplicates because they all have exactly the same name, "date". The "#0", "#1", etc. annotations are to show you that they are different instances (known as "widgets") of the same field. You can rename them to "date1", "date2", "date3" or "date one", "date two", "date three", or "date", "apples", "oranges", or whatever. As long as they don't have the same name. The first option is probably the best one, though...

[try67]

PS. In the future try using the Create Multiple Copies command that appears when you right-click a field in the Form Edit (or Prepare Form) mode.

It will generate identical copies of the selected field, in constant distances, but with unique field names. It's much easier than manually copying, pasting and then renaming them...

[mrscaston]

Awesome, I'll try this and I'll let you know how it goes shortly.  Thanks again.