How can I amend my form?

You don't need to start over. Just load the current form, with the fields into LiveCycle Designer. Then you can modify the fields.

Thom Parker
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Thank you Thomp, but I still haven't been successful. When I load the form in LCD I can only amend the fill-in fields; how do I amend the form that lies beneath the fields? If I amend the original Word document and create a new pdf from it, then I would have to create the form again from scratch.

If I load the existing pdf that's linked to the finished LCD form, then the fill-in fields appear on it and Acrobat doesn't seem to give me access to the form to change it.

Hope that makes sense - I would attach the form to show you if I knew how to!

I remember I had that problem at my workplace where I had converted all my Word forms to PDF's and then added the fields manually in LiveCycle designer but because my job constantly makes changes to their forms I just decided to do all the forms from scratch in LiveCycle and I'm glad I did.

Something you might consider for your future projects.

Under the Edit menu there is a command Replace Artwork, use this to replace the underlying PDF.

Well this begs the question, How did you create the original LCD form. Did you import the word file directly into LCD, convert to PDF and import this, and if you did import a PDF into LCD, did you select "Fixed Layout" or "Flowable Layout"? Each of these options produces different results.

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
[url=http://www.pdfScripting.com]pdfscripting.com[/url]

The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php[/url]

Then most important JavaScript Development tool in Acrobat
[url=http://www.pdfscripting.com/public/34.cfm#JSIntro][b]The Console Window (Video tutorial)[/b][/url]
[url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/javascript_console][b]The Console Window(article)[/b][/url]

I tried both methods. The original form was created by someone else as a Word doc so I turned it into a pdf using Acrobat then hit Create Forms which took me to LCD. I also tried amending the original word doc then importing that directly into LCD. Should I have used "flowable layout"?

Jonom's tip to use Replace Artwork had potential - I thought this might be the solution but my new artwork has an additional page so LCD wouldn't let me replace the file. I tried deleting a page to get round this problem, then re-instating it later on but that had its problems too. I'm over-complicating things now - help!

Replacing artwork is a very simple way to do it if you have the PDF as a background. I think you should be able to "Add a Page" to the LCD file and import. But I don't particularly like the whole PDF as background thing. If I'm going to make a LiveCycle form then I go whole hog and choolse "Flowable Layout". This creates a pure LCD design where you can edit every line and piece of text, as well as the form fields.

Have you watched the videos on Creating LiveCycle forms? there are serveral on this site. Look at the eseminars. Here's my favorite
https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a200985228/p87746471/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normalThom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
[url=http://www.pdfScripting.com]pdfscripting.com[/url]

The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php[/url]

Then most important JavaScript Development tool in Acrobat
[url=http://www.pdfscripting.com/public/34.cfm#JSIntro][b]The Console Window (Video tutorial)[/b][/url]
[url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/javascript_console][b]The Console Window(article)[/b][/url]