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When I open the pdf form - all the form field names are displayed..

summa
Registered: Apr 25 2010
Posts: 24

When I open the pdf form - all the form field names are displayed..
without me going to Advance editing and select tool.
HOw to hide the form field names and display it only when necessary.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 9.3.1, Windows
thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
It sounds like Acrobat is somehow defaulting to the "Select Object" tool when a PDF is opened. Very, very odd. I'm pretty sure that this cannot be controled by a preference setting so I suspect something else must be going on. Do you have any 3rd party folder level scripts or plug-ins?

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Thom Parker
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www.pdfscripting.com
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