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buckDharma
Registered: May 28 2010
Posts: 23

hello all

I am using the form wizard to place fields in a PDF(s) - we have these PDFs for our users to fill out a "checklist" of their qualifications. The idea is that they have a subject like: Arterial Monitoring... and to the right are 4 fields ( Arterial Monitoring 1, Arterial Monitoring 2.. etc ) where they rate their experience ( Novice.. to Expert ). I want them to only be able to place 1 check mark and not multiple check marks. I cant seem to find anything to make this happen.

If I need to convert these to radio buttons... is there a way to change a lot of text fields to radio buttons all at once?

Using Acrobat Pro 9

Thanks

Rob

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 9.0, Macintosh
thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
Unfortunately you can't swap field types from the UI in Acrobat 9. This was a feature in Acrobat 5, but Adobe got rid of it right away.

You'll need to manually go through the process of deleting the old fields and adding new ones. But this is not unexpected. It's what you would have had to have done before form field recognition. And the wizard does a pretty poor job on a lot of documents. Sometimes it's much easier to just do it manually in the first place.

Thom Parker
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buckDharma
Registered: May 28 2010
Posts: 23
I was afraid of that.. already started replacing text with radio .. thanks