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Creating a PDF form

Creating a PDF form

- [Narrator] Creating a PDF form requires that you have access to the Acrobat Pro software. You cannot use the Acrobat reader to create a PDF form. The form itself begins in another program, such as Microsoft Word, from there, it's imported into Acrobat where the form fields and controls are added and the PDF form is created. Here's a document I whipped up in Microsoft Word. You don't need blank lines or boxes. Just the texts laid out in a pattern where I can add the form elements later. This source document can be as simple or as fancy as you want. You can use Word, Excel or even create a plain text file and ensure that you close this file when you're done editing. Here in Acrobat Pro, I'm going to show the tools and choose, prepare form, select my word document and click start. Here are the form elements you can add. I'm going to start with a text tool, which is basic. So I'm going to add a text box right here, click…

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