How to make and link Text boxes?
How to make and link Text boxes?
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Hello,
please pardon my interuption, I am a SUPER newb here. I tried searching but I don't even know the proper terms I should search for? I figure this is a simple question for any of you Acrobat gurus...
I have about a dozen or so forms that I have to fill out for each customer sale at work. Each form I have to HAND WRITE name, address, phone number, account number etc. I have to write it like 12 freaking times for each sale, it's nuts! What I am looking to do is scan in each one of the forms as a PDF and then make a text box in each appropriate place that then links back to 1 master sheet. So when I type in the info. it auto propagates into the appropriate text box on each document. Would be nice if I could link the PDF text boxes to an Excel master, but an Adobe master would work too.
I have a full version of Adobe Acrobat 5.0. If that is too old, I could by a current copy to use if nec.
Any and all help is much appricated,
Thank you.
please pardon my interuption, I am a SUPER newb here. I tried searching but I don't even know the proper terms I should search for? I figure this is a simple question for any of you Acrobat gurus...
I have about a dozen or so forms that I have to fill out for each customer sale at work. Each form I have to HAND WRITE name, address, phone number, account number etc. I have to write it like 12 freaking times for each sale, it's nuts! What I am looking to do is scan in each one of the forms as a PDF and then make a text box in each appropriate place that then links back to 1 master sheet. So when I type in the info. it auto propagates into the appropriate text box on each document. Would be nice if I could link the PDF text boxes to an Excel master, but an Adobe master would work too.
I have a full version of Adobe Acrobat 5.0. If that is too old, I could by a current copy to use if nec.
Any and all help is much appricated,
Thank you.
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RE: How to make and link Text boxes?
for the long term, it sounds like you need a program solution, where you enter the info on a screen, and it takes care of printing the various necessary forms. The Excel idea will get you started, and you can later work out how to do it using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). If someone else has better ideas, please jump in!
Fred Wagner
RE: How to make and link Text boxes?
Using Acrobat 9 Pro here on the Mac.
If you create a PDF form with 12 or so pages and each page has a "Name" field, then name the Name field exactly the same on all pages.
If page one has Name1 and page two has Name2, etc. then it won't work.
Note: the same applies to Phone, Date, etc.
So as long as the fields on each page have the exact name, then you fill in one and all will be filled in.
Hope this helps
IMacQuarker
RE: How to make and link Text boxes?
RE: How to make and link Text boxes?
Try this
This example uses 3 pages with Name, Phone, Address.
If you use form wizard it will automatically name them as shown.
Name
Name_1
Name_2
When you change it to just Name the program will rename them like this.
Name#
Name#1
Name#2
You can change that on the left in the fields window or Click the field and show Properties/General/Name and change there.
Another way is to copy and paste the Name Field, that also should work
Click here;
http://nixmailmac.com/name.html
RE: How to make and link Text boxes?
Thanks!