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How to Change "TO" email addr of Automatic Acrobat Form Submit Button

mdeintl
Registered: Dec 10 2008
Posts: 3
Answered

I am a new user and have a created a form in Acrobat 9 Pro.

I know that I could put a submit button on the form, but I dont want to.

According to http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/9.0/Standard/WS3593E0A4-C5E2-4cde-A09E-2A984346DDD2.w.php

"When you distribute a form, Acrobat automatically checks the form. If it doesn’t find a submit button, it adds a Submit Form button to the document message bar. Users can click the Submit Form button to send completed forms back to you. If you don’t plan to use the Submit Form button created by Acrobat, you can add a custom submit button to your form."

This automatic Submit button is adequate for me.

I tell it that I want to collect responses manually through email and the I want to save a local copy and manually send it out. It then creates a new pdf file with "distributed" added to the file name. When I open this new file in reader, I can fill it out and save it and it has the Submit button as promised.

The problem is when the Submit is clicked, it brings up a Send Form screen that allows the user to fill in their name and email address. The "TO" address is already specified and it is WRONG. It is my email address, one of them, but not the one I want the filled out forms sent to. I don't know where acrobat got this address, it never asked me during the distribute form wizard where I want completed forms emailed to. It just grabbed an address and made it the SUBMIT TO address. Well, I don't like Acrobat's choice, but there doesn't seem to be anyway to change it. I've been beating my head against the wall for over an hour looking for where this address is specified to no avail. I've done the distribute form wizard a dozen times, there is no place to specify the email address I want submission sent to. There is nothing in any of the acrobat menus where i can specify it. Can someone please tell how to change the "TO" email address on the automatically created submit button.

Thank you very much for any help.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.0, Windows
George_Johnson
Expert
Registered: Jul 6 2008
Posts: 1876
I don't have Acrobat 9 in front of me at the moment, but try "Edit > Preferences > Identity" to see if the email address it's using is given there.George
mdeintl
Registered: Dec 10 2008
Posts: 3
Thank You!!! Thank You!!! Thank You!!! Thank You!!! Thank You!!! Thank You!!! Thank You!!! Thank You!!! Thank You!!! Thank You!!! Thank You!!!

and Thank You!!!

Worked perfectly. Whatever I put in "Edit > Preferences > Identity" for email address is used as the SUBMIT TO address of the automatic Submit button that is created during the Distribute Form Wizard.I must have put in the address it was using during the installation of acrobat 9.

Again, Thank You.