Formatting not showing up in Forms

[Art from Ashes]

I'm trying to use Forms formatting but the only tabs available to me in Properties are General / Appearance / Postion / Options... what happened?

[Nesa Nurani · Accepted solution]

Select 'Prepare form' tool, click on 'More' then on 'Convert to acrobat form'.

[Nesa Nurani · Accepted solution]

Select 'Prepare form' tool, click on 'More' then on 'Convert to acrobat form'.

[Art from Ashes]

Ohmigoodness! I guess I don't understand the difference between what I was doing and why it wasn't a "form"?? But thank you!

[Bernd Alheit]

There are no more tabs available in a Adobe Sign form.

[Amal. · Accepted solution]

Hi there

Hope you are doing well and sorry for the trouble. As you are unable to get the 'Format' option in the PDF forms properties:

Please try the steps below:

• Open the PDF form
• Go to Tools > Prepare Form
• Click on 'More' in the right hand panel and select 'Rever to Acrobat form' as shown in the screenshot below:

Regards

Amal

[Art from Ashes]

Thank you! What's the difference between the Form I was creating and editing and Convert to Form?

[try67]

By ticking the "This form requires signatures" box when you created the form you converted it (unknowingly) to an Adobe Sign form, which has much more limited functionalities compared to a "normal" Acrobat form.

If you revert the form back you'll have these functionalities again. You can still have the form signed, by adding a Digital Signature field to it. Adobe Sign is an online service that stores the file and distributes it to the recipients so multiple people can sign the same copy of it.

[Art from Ashes]

Thank you so much for explaining (so I don't inadvertently do it again!).

[SPARTYCUS22]

Recently had this problem and the below solution did not work due to there being no 'More' option.

I had to go to 'File' and in the drop down select 'Disable new Adobe' after which the below solution from Nesa Nurani worked.