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How Does One Select Fields Without Inadvertently Duplicating Them?

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2008-06-03 09:27:41
kc27
Registered: Oct 7 2006
Posts: 9

I am using Acrobat Professional 8 to create forms. Often I have the need to select more than one field in order to apply various attributes to them.

Pressing the "Ctrl" button on the keyboard while clicking on the fields offers the ability to select individual, non-continguous fields, but if you happen to move the field even slightly when clicking to select it, the field is duplicated - a copy of the field is stacked on top of the original.

Is there another way to select individual fields without the risk of duplicating them?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1.2, Windows
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2008-06-03 13:04:32
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jbfreels
Registered: Feb 19 2008
Posts: 63
Click and drag over your form items to select them. Of course that's not convenient if they are not close to each other. I suffer from the same issue, as well as many other people.

-jb
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2008-06-04 10:48:34
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kc27
Registered: Oct 7 2006
Posts: 9
jbfreels wrote:
Click and drag over your form items to select them. Of course that's not convenient if they are not close to each other. I suffer from the same issue, as well as many other people.-jb
The click and drag won't work for me, because it will pick up some form fields that I do not want. Even selecting a specific type of form field from the toolbar, for example, text field, then holding control and clicking and dragging won't help, because while it limits the fields selected to text fields, it also will include text fields I do not want.

All that is needed is a modifier key to use in conjunction with the control key in order to turn off field duplication when clicking to select individual fields. Hope that functionality gets added to Acrobat .
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2008-06-04 11:52:04
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jbfreels
Registered: Feb 19 2008
Posts: 63
OR, it could simply just not copy the form fields that have been selected. Copy/Paste could be the only option, that would work for me.
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