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2008-11-07 10:37:45
rciorra
Registered: Nov 7 2008
Posts: 4

I am pretty new to Acrobat. I created an order form. What I want to do is this. When a sales rep starts to type in the company name the address and phone automatically populate. Is this possible? If so, please let me know how. THANKS!

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 9.0, Windows
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2008-11-07 12:11:48
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George_Johnson
Expert
Registered: Jul 6 2008
Posts: 1876
Yes, it's possible to automatically populate fields based on the value entered into a field, but the value would have to first get committed. For an example, Thom Parker wrote a nice article that shows how to do this with a combo box:

http://www.acrobatusers.com/tech_corners/javascript_corner/tips/2006/change_another_field/

To get a text field to auto-complete as the user types, the user would have to enable the auto-complete user preference. For example, in Acrobat 7 this is controlled by "Edit > Preferences > Forms > Auto-complete > Basic | Advanced"George
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