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Aligning, centering, and distributing form fields, Aligning, Centering – Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional User Manual

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Aligning, centering, and distributing form fields

You can quickly position form fields by aligning them relative to one another, centering
them relative to the page, or distributing them relative to one another.

To align form fields:

1. On the Forms toolbar, select the tool used to create the form field.
2. Press Shift and select the form fields that you want to align. You must select a minimum

of two form fields.

3. Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the field that is to remain stationary,

and then choose a command from the Align menu:

Left, Right, Top, or Bottom aligns all form fields with the respective border of the anchor
form field.

Vertically aligns all form fields along the vertical axis of the anchor form field.

Horizontally aligns all form fields along the horizontal axis of the anchor form field.

To center form fields:

1. In the Forms toolbar, select the tool used to create the form field.
2. Press Shift and select the form fields that you want to center.
3. Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS), and choose a command from the

Center menu:

Vertically centers the form fields with respect to the page's vertical dimension.

Horizontally centers the form fields with respect to the page's horizontal dimension.

Both centers the form fields on the page.

To distribute form fields:

1. On the Forms toolbar, select the tool used to create the form field.
2. Press Shift and select the form fields that you want to distribute. You must select a

minimum of three form fields.

3. Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) and choose one of the following

commands from the Distribute menu:

Vertically distributes the intermediate form fields evenly between the topmost and
bottommost form fields in the selection. This action disregards Snap To Grid.

Horizontally distributes the intermediate form fields evenly between the leftmost and
rightmost form fields in the selection. This action disregards Snap To Grid.

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