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How to make and link Text boxes?

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2010-05-10 22:39:11
suavegato
Registered: May 10 2010
Posts: 2

Hello,
please pardon my interruption, I am a SUPER newb here. I tried searching but I don't even know the proper terms I should search for? I figure this is a simple question for any of you Acrobat gurus...

I have about a dozen or so forms that I have to fill out for each customer sale at work. Each form I have to HAND WRITE name, address, phone number, account number etc. I have to write it like 12 freaking times for each sale, it's nuts! What I am looking to do is scan in each one of the forms as a PDF and then make a text box in each appropriate place that then links back to 1 master sheet. So when I type in the info. it auto propagates into the appropriate text box on each document. Would be nice if I could link the PDF text boxes to an Excel master, but an Adobe master would work too.

I have a full version of Adobe Acrobat 5.0. If that is too old, I could buy a current copy to use if nec.

Any and all help is much appreciated,
Thank you.

biGjOhn

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 5.x or older
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2010-05-11 00:23:38
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try67
Expert
Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
It's possible to link text fields to either a master file, or even an Excel spreadsheet, but that is quite complicated.

I would suggest the following: Start with just creating the text boxes in a single file. If you do it by creating one and the copying and pasting it to other places in the same document, all of these boxes will be linked and any data entered into one of them will automatically appear in all the rest.
If you want to break this link you need to change their names. Form fields with the same name in Acrobat have the same value.

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