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Connect data to dropdowns

Powervalve
Registered: Mar 11 2007
Posts: 2

How do I Connect a Drop down list to some external data, say an Excel Spreadsheet?
 
Thanks.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
tedpadova
ExpertTeam
Registered: Dec 31 2005
Posts: 848
You need to create a data connection and it's something that we can't easily explain here in this forum.

Your starting point would be to use Adobe LiveCycle Designer (Windows only) to create your form and create the data connection. Look to the help and sample files installed with Designewr, on Adobe's Web Site in the LiveCycle forum, and also the online support you can access from the Designer Help menu.

ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.