These forums are now Read Only. If you have an Acrobat question, ask questions and get help from one of our experts.

Copy/paste a Form from a PDF to a new one makes Calculation not working

frankybee
Registered: Nov 22 2011
Posts: 2
Answered

Hi!
 
I have to make many (140 similar forms, each with 20 to 50 fields) PDFs, each one including a form. The forms are very similar, so basically, I'm copy-pasting from one document to the other, and making small adjustments to each as is necessary.
 
The form itself contains several fields that are summed. When I copy and paste all the fields from the original to the new document, however, the sum doesn't seem to give the correct result--some of the fields aren't added to the sum, even though they still appear in the calculation (sum).
 
This issue occurs on all copy-paste instances, but the results, the specific fields not being calculated seems random, so I have to go from field to field across many docs to make sure that the results are correct.
 
When I find that a specific field isn't working in the SUM calculation, I can delete it, copy-paste it back from the original, then it works as it should.
 
Can someone suggest how I can go about ensuring that my copy-paste process doesn't break the form?
  
Thanks!
 

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.2, Macintosh
George_Johnson
Expert
Registered: Jul 6 2008
Posts: 1875
Accepted Answer
Be sure to set the field calculation order to what makes sense for your form. It will get messed up when you do what you describe. Go into form editing mode (Forms -- Add or Edit Fields) and then select "Forms -- Edit Fields -- Set Field Calculation Order".
frankybee
Registered: Nov 22 2011
Posts: 2
Thank you George!

(Ideed, the order of my fields was causing the problem...)