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Editing a document after placing form fields

crawforde
Registered: May 12 2009
Posts: 6

I am new to Acrobat. I created a document in Word and converted it to Acrobat. I then went into Acrobat 9.0 Standard and spent lots of time putting form fields in the document. After doing that I desided that I wanted a few new lines of text. As far as I am aware I have to go back into Word to add the new lines and then convert it into a PDF again. The problem is I lose all of the form fields that I put in. How can I go back and make these changes and not lose what I have already done?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 9.0, Windows
gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
If you kept a copy of the PDF with your added form fields, you can just replace the underlying text layer with the new PDF. You may then need to move your existing fields to new locations. This works because there is a separate layer for the PDF text and image from the layer containing the form fields.

George Kaiser

Merlin
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Mar 1 2006
Posts: 766
Othewise, you can copy/paste form fields from one document to another…
crawforde
Registered: May 12 2009
Posts: 6
How do you replace the underlying text layer with the new PDF?
gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
You can use the menu "Document => Replace Pages..." with the old form open and follow the prompts to locate the new PDF and then idicate what pages to replace in the open PDF with which pages from the new PDF.

George Kaiser

crawforde
Registered: May 12 2009
Posts: 6
Great. Thanks you that.