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Acrobat 9 Pro PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow
Practices Guide.
The Form Wizard completes its analysis of the document, adds any form fields it may detect and places the
PDF form in Forms Editing Mode where you can edit the automatically created fields or add additional form
fields
(See "Forms Editing Mode" on page 11).
During form field detection, Acrobat may have missed some fields or created unneeded fields. It may have
also created fields of the wrong type. Please verify the fields and field names on your form. You can select
Add New Field on the Forms Editing toolbar to add more fields or right click on the form to edit or delete
fields.
Enter Forms Editing Mode Directly
If you don't want to use the Form Wizard, you can open the file, and place the document in Form Editing
Mode directly.
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From the Acrobat Menu, select Forms > Add Or Edit Fields (Keyboard shortcut is Shift + Ctrl 7).
This displays the Add or Edit Form Fields dialog
page 10)
Answering "Yes" to the Add or Edit Form Fields dialog question "Do you want Acrobat to detect form fields
for you?" results in the automatic detection of form fields prior to placing the document in Form Editing
Mode. This is the same as if you had proceeded using the Form Wizard on the current PDF.
Acrobat completes its analysis of the document, adds any form fields it may detect and places the PDF form
in Forms Editing Mode where you can edit the automatically created fields or add additional form fields
"Forms Editing Mode" on page 11).
During form field detection, Acrobat may have missed some fields or created unneeded fields. It may have
also created fields of the wrong type. Please verify the fields and field names on your form. You can select
Add New Field on the Forms Editing toolbar to add more fields or right click on the form to edit or delete
fields.
Answering "No" to the Add or Edit Form Fields dialog question "Do you want Acrobat to detect form fields
for you?" also places the document in Form Editing mode, but does not create form fields automatically. You
will have to add the form fields manually. Proceed to the next section,
page 10
for futher information.
Create Form Fields Manually
To add form fields manually you first select Forms > Add or Edit Fields (Keyboard shortcut is Shift + Ctrl 7)
and answer "No" to the question "Do you want Acrobat to detect the Form Fields for you?" in the resulting
dialog
(See "Figure 5 Add or Edit Form Fields Dialog" on page 10)
Editing Mode without automatically creating any fields. You can now add new form fields to the PDF form.
Proceed to the next section
(See "Figure 5 Add or Edit Form Fields Dialog" on
"Forms Editing Mode" on page 11
Figure 5 Add or Edit Form Fields Dialog
Making PDF Accessible with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
"Create Form Fields Manually" on
This places the document in Forms
for further instruction.
(See
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