Copy and paste form fields between PDFs

I think I now have new indications why the initial problem showed and and still shows up.

I noticed another important thing yesterday: the Paste item is greyed out when a page thumbail is selected, as usual when you clic a thumbnail to go to another page after copying.

So you must clic on the page layout to be able to paste.

Ain't Acrobat's UI great?

I think I now have new indications why the initial problem showed and and still shows up. I noticed on some pages - those where I couldn't copy fileds - there existed some fields located under the ones I wanted to copy and they were some kind of duplicates of them having the same name and size. They seemed like an exact duplicate except they didn't show up in the form field list on the right and they can't be deleted, copied or renamed but resized . So they doesn't really exist but they do somehow, maybe automatically created?

If these fields are within the fields you selected with the mouse (selection rectangle) all the fields are unable to being copied. If I chose the fields I want to copy form the list it works.

Tip: Press the shift key before doing : Edit menu : Paste

This will "paste in place".

But don't expect the shortcut shift-crtl-V (shift-cmd-V on MacOS) to do the same thing, since the engineers of Acrobat are UI and UX experts…

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When selecting fields, be sure to not select a comment nor a link object at the same time, this avoid copy-pasting to work.

Hi pitchable,

If you just need to apply all the fields to a new page design you can use Replace Pages. If the layout is significantly different you may need to move some fields into place, but still faster than recreating them all.

Hope this helps,

Dimitri Munkirs

What happens when you attempt to do so?