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Filling in one form with different information from several people

letterwoman
Registered: Feb 24 2010
Posts: 4
Answered

I hope I can explain this correctly. I have a 4-up mini-form that I created to send to seven other people in a group I'm in. I e-mailed it to them so they could each fill in their information and e-mail it back to me. Now that I have their filled-out pdf forms, is there a way for me to copy all the information that they filled in my form and paste it into a copy of my original form so that the 4-up forms each contain the different information from each person?

I tried to fill in each of the 4-up forms with different information, but as soon as I fill in one field, the fields in the other three forms fill in with the same information. Is there a way to disable the fields from filling in with the same information from the field I'm pasting information into? What I want is for all four of the mini-forms to retain different information in my pdf. When I tab over to the next field, I don't want it to fill in with any of the same information from another field.

I want to fill in all eight of the mini-forms with all of our separate information and then e-mail this single pdf back to the other seven people so they can keep a copy of it.

Does that make sense?

try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2399
You need to change the names of the form fields so they are not identical. You probably have 4 fields called "Name", for example. You need to change them to "Name1", "Name2", "Name3", "Name4", etc.

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letterwoman
Registered: Feb 24 2010
Posts: 4
Thank you so much! Duh, I should have figured that out myself. It was such a simple solution.