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2007-01-18 15:36:13
jg0017
Registered: Jan 17 2007
Posts: 2

Although I am an experienced programmer, I am new to Adobe Professional and can not find how to merge text (not numeric) for three fields into a four field. Example: enter first, middle and last name in separate field but merge then where needed.
 
Thanks,
 
Mike

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
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2007-01-18 23:06:34
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thomp
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Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
This is something that has to be done with JavaScript. The specifics depend on the type of form you have, xfa or acroforms. Either way, you need to write a calculation script. For an AcroForm the code would look something like this

event.value = this.getField("FirstName").value + this.getField("MiddleName").value + this.getField("LastName").value;

of course the field names need to be changed to match the ones on your form.

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