How Do You Make Certain Fields Editable For Others?

[HerderA]

When you open the above document in PDF the blue fields are editable to anyone who open this! In creating this document in indesign how do I do this????

[jane-e]

You use the Buttons panel to make Text fields and then export it as an Interactive (not Print) PDF. You can tweak the text fields in Adobe Acrobat.

Ask if you need more details.

[HerderA]

Is there some sort of step by step for this? I just tried to do this but it is not working and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong!?

[jane-e]

You didn't say what's not working?

1. But draw any kind of frame > select it with the Selection tool > Use the Buttons and Forms panel to convert it to a text field.
   
   
   
2. Use the panel to do any formatting
   
3. Repeat
4. Export to Interactive PDF. Preview it and tweak it there.
   It will not work in InDesign, and it now occurs to me this is what we both forgot to mention before. If that is what you thought wasn't working, I send apologies. If it was something else, please say what it is!

[HerderA]

Thank you everyone! This helped me!!

[Frans v.d. Geest]

By making it a form (Use Buttons and Forms panel) and save it as interactive PDF.

[Jeff Witchel, ACI]

If you'd like a video tutorial about creating form in InDesign, take a look:

http://www.jeffwitchel.net/2012/10/author-interactive-acrobat-forms-right-in-indesign/