Adobe Acrobat 9 PRO Extended - Manual (Page 200)

194 USING ACROBAT 9 PRO EXTENDED
Forms
Last updated 9/30/2011
• To duplicate the form field on a limited range of pages, click the From button, and type the start and ending pages
on which you want the form field to appear.
Note: Including or not including the page on which the form field originally appears doesn’t affect the duplication process.
Including that page won’t create a second copy on top of the original one, and not including it won’t remove the original
form field.
Select multiple form fields
Selecting multiple form fields is the first step for several tasks, such as creating copies, aligning form fields, and
adjusting the spacing between form fields.
❖ If necessary, choose Forms > Add or Edit Fields, and then do any of the following:
• To select all form fields of all types, choose Edit > Select All.
• To select a range of form fields, click the first form field in the range, and then Shift-click the last form field. All
form fields between the two form fields are selected.
• To select individual form fields in different parts of the PDF page, Ctrl-click each form field.
• To select all form fields in an area of the page, use the Select Object tool to drag a selection marquee around the area.
• To deselect an individual form field, Ctrl-click that field.
The field that is highlighted in dark blue and displays the border handles is the anchor. When you select multiple form
fields by clicking, the last field selected is the anchor. When you use a marquee, the form field that was created first is
the anchor. If you Ctrl-click to deselect the anchor, the form field located in the upper left of the selection becomes the
new anchor form field.
Resize and arrange form fields
After you create form fields, you can rearrange, resize, or move them to give the page a cleaner, more professional look.
To make adjustments in the layout of form fields, make sure that you are in editing mode (choose Forms > Add or Edit
Fields).
Resize a form field
1 Select the Select Object tool.
2 Select the form field that you want to resize.
3 Do any of the following:
• To resize the field manually, click to select the form field, and then drag a border handle. Hold Shift and drag a
corner handle to maintain the current aspect ratio of the form field.
• To resize the field by one pixel, press Ctrl+Arrow key; to resize the fields by ten pixels, press Ctrl+Shift+Arrow key.
Resize multiple form fields to match a selected form field
1 Select all the form fields that you want to resize.
2 Right-click the form field that you want the other selected form fields to match. Choose Set Fields To Same Size,
and then select one of the following:
Height Adjusts the heights without changing the widths.
Width Adjusts the widths without changing the heights.
Both Adjust all widths and heights to match.