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Decimal Places in Form Fields

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2007-05-24 14:34:15
JCulp
Registered: May 24 2007
Posts: 2

I am a somewhat experienced user of Acrobat Professional (mostly version 6.x), but am new to LiveCycle.
 
I have created several fill-in enabled forms and everything works great except for one thing...numeric fields with decimal places. I want to allow a user to enter "12335" and have it display as "123.35" (without the need to enter the decimal point). I have tried seemingly every combination of display patterns and edit patterns, as well as using decimal fields instead of numeric fields. However, I cannot find a solution that works.
 
I am quite frustrated, because I know if the field was built within Acrobat (instead of LiveCycle), I could simply choose the decimal places from the formatting dialog box and the field would exhibit the behavior I am looking for.
 
So...is there way to do this and I am just missing it? Or, alternatively, is there a way to "turn off" LiveCycle so I can create and edit forms directly within Acrobat in order to take advantage of the "easier" functionality?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
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2007-08-10 15:59:31
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pdftrainer
Expert
Registered: Dec 14 2005
Posts: 180
You could script the addition of decimal places, but I would caution against it. What happens if the user wants to enter 100 and just types "100"? A script or autoformat would convert the entry to 1.00.

All the old form tools are still in Acrobat. See Acrobat Help on how to use them.

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