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Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy. Create forms Search. Adobe Sign User Guide. Select an article: Select an article:. Applies to: Adobe Sign. Form creation methods. These reusable documents can be created using one of three different methods. In-app Drag and Drop Authoring. Text Tags.

Choose Create New , and click Start. Below is an example form with labels created using the Add Text and the Add Image tools. To add a field: In the toolbar, click the tool corresponding to the field type, or right-click anywhere in the form and then choose the tool.

Click at the desired location in the form to place the selected field. Set the field properties. The field properties vary based on the type of the form field. Once you complete adding form fields, save the form. For more information on form fields and how to set their properties, see the next section. What are the different form fields I can use in a PDF form? You can use text boxes, drop-down lists, radio buttons, check-boxes, list boxes, and more.

Set the form field properties like text resizing, date fields, calculations, or trigger custom scripts, to define fields' behavior. Learn more. How do I add a clear form or reset form button to my form? A clear or reset form button clears any data a user has already entered in the form. You can also set up the reset button so that it clears only specific fields. How do I add a submit button to my form?

When you distribute a form, Acrobat automatically checks the form. Users can click the Submit Form button to send completed forms back to you. Can I add action buttons in a PDF form? Yes, you can add action buttons in a form to open a file, play a sound or movie clip, submit data to a web server, and much more. How do I change the size of the form fields? To resize the field manually, drag the border handle. You can also resize the form field by one pixel or to a specific dimension.

How do I move fields in a PDF form? All fields that are at least partly contained in the described box will be selected. Click anywhere on the PDF to de-select the fields. The first step to aligning fields is to establish one properly placed field. In the below example, the Address field has been properly sized using the manual click and drag process. Visually, you can see that the Contact field to the right will be the same height, and the Phone, Fax and Order Number fields will be the same width.

Select both the Address and Contact field. You will notice that the field borders will change color from the other fields, indicating they are selected. The top-right side of the Acrobat window shows the alignment tools. Click the Match width and height icon. With both fields still selected, click the Align Top icon to bring the Contact field to the correct alignment across the top of the fields.

Left click the Contact field to select just that field, and then adjust the handles on the left and right of the field to fit it in place. Adjust the fields to the correct height. This can be done manually for each field if necessary, or you can manually fit one field, then select the others and snap them to the same height.

Fine field adjustment can be done using the arrow keys on your keyboard. Select one or more fields, and then use the arrows to move the fields by tiny increments. Remember that you can zoom in to the PDF to give you larger field objects that can be more precisely adjusted.

All fields have an identifying name, but none are explicitly assigned to a recipient, and no fields have any content validation.

If you would like to include field properties, like recipient identification, content validation, conditional appearance or calculations, you will need to append the field name with arguments just as you would with Text Tags.

As you are adding fields to the form, a listing of the field names displays in the right rail of the Acrobat page. This list can be used to find or access any form field on the document quickly, without being on the page, and will readily indicate if a field name exists in more than one place on the form by appending a 1 after the name. Unique field names can contain unique content. Fields that have the same name will contain the same content.

By filling in one field, you will automatically pollinate that content to every other field using the same name. This is useful if you have a form that asks for the same information in multiple place. If you are using the fields automatically placed by Acrobat, then the names of your fields will be simple descriptive strings.

Fields placed from the toolbar may have a larger name including arguments identical to the Text Tag format. Changing the name of the form field to an Adobe Sign tag allows you to apply all the field properties recognized by Adobe Sign, without sacrificing space on the document like a text tag would.

While the Adobe Sign drag-and-drop authoring environment does not support or have an option for multi-line fields, you can set a field up this way in Acrobat and have it function through Adobe Sign.

Refer to Text Tag Documentation for tags to be used in the form fields on your document. Aside from the standard text fields, Acrobat has check boxes, radio buttons and dropdown menus that will function through Adobe Sign. The options for these objects can be applied using the arguments in the tag, or through the object properties in Acrobat. If you choose to use the object properties in Acrobat, ensure you still enter a basic tag for the name of the object. This will ensure the object has a name and is assigned to the intended recipient.

See Manually Placing Form Fields for more information. Under Options, the available settings are the Button Style , Radio Button Choice , and the two options: Button is checked by default and Buttons with the same name and choice are selected in unison , which links identically named buttons.

Additionally an export value is recommended. This value can then be exported during the signing process.