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/t5/acrobat-discussions/how-to-change-font-size-in-fillable-forms-in-the-form-fill-fields/td-p/10543453 Jun 11, 2019 Jun 11, 2019
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I am in Acrobat Pro 2017
I have forms I have to fill out from different schools and organizations to register our officers. Sometimes the fillable fields change font size as the text I enter fills the box. But sometimes the font size doesn't change. Also, sometimes it doesn't change systematically. So for example: I have 3 phone number fields. I've entered 3 different phone numbers in the exact same format. But each of these fields end up being a different size. I am trying to edit the text I enter in the fillable fields but I can't figure out how to do that. I read in a comment from a year ago that said to go to edit form and right click on a form field. All that did was allow me to edit the existing form fields not the fillable form fields.
I also would like to ask if there is a way to have certain form fill fields be saved while still having certain form fill fields that I can fill out each time I enter a new officer. I'd like to not have to fill out the same info in certain fields each time I have to fill out a form.
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10 Replies 10 Community Expert ,/t5/acrobat-discussions/how-to-change-font-size-in-fillable-forms-in-the-form-fill-fields/m-p/10543454#M146092 Jun 11, 2019 Jun 11, 2019
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Are you creating the form, or filling in an existing form?
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Community Beginner ,/t5/acrobat-discussions/how-to-change-font-size-in-fillable-forms-in-the-form-fill-fields/m-p/10543455#M146093 Jun 13, 2019 Jun 13, 2019
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I am just filling in an existing form.
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Community Beginner ,/t5/acrobat-discussions/how-to-change-font-size-in-fillable-forms-in-the-form-fill-fields/m-p/10543456#M146094 Jun 13, 2019 Jun 13, 2019
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I saw another post that asked the same question. The original questioner and I never could find the same options the people that were trying to help us were talking about in order to change the font size. I finally figured out why and tried to reply to post that and for some reason it wouldn't let me post to that thread. I don't know why. But I thought I would put in here what I learned to help others. I also, ended up having more questions about the tabs in the form not working right and my getting duplicate ghosting in my "fillable fields" that I had entered text into and then hit my tab button. So I hope what I paste here will help others and I hope someone can help me with my questions. Thanks!
This thread is probably too old for anyone to respond to me but I have the same problem with wanting to change the font size in the "fillable" form fields. I did not make this form. I have 3 different phone number fields. Each field has a different font size. Some of the other "fillable" form fields have a large font size but that doesn't look right. The original person, amyv56089147, who started this thread couldn't even fit all of the text she was writing into one of their "Fillable" form fields.
I want to thank everyone for trying to help but somehow what y'all are saying to do, didn't work for amyv56089147 and it doesn't work for me.
Whoa! I think I just figured out why amyv56089147 , I and others couldn't see what y'all are telling us should be showing when we right click on one of the "Fillable" form fields. And why y'all that are helping us don't see what we see. I have been working on a form that I have already put info in the "fillable" form fields. I decided to open the original form without me entering info yet. I went to "Prepare Form". All of a sudden all of the "fillable" form fields have the field label in the fields. When I now right click on a "fillable" field, I get what y'all keep telling us we should see. So I click on "properties" then "appearance" and voila "Font Size". In the form the fields are all set to auto. The reason those 3 phone number fields have 3 different font sizes is that whoever wrote the form, made different field sizes so that would cause the font size to change according to the field size. I am going to try and make all 3 of those fields be the same size and not auto. That will correct that problem.
I'm very excited to find this out. What I would love help for is when there is a large field size, is there any way to maybe restrict the maximum size the font could be. I'm just thinking that for ex: I get these forms I have to fill out from different schools and police department where I have to fill in our officer's info to register them for a course. The "Course Title" field is very large. Most courses don't need that big of a field. So when I put in the title, the font size is huge. But a few Course Titles might need the auto sizing in order to fit into the field. I doubt if this is possible, but I thought I'd at least ask. Also, I wonder why I can't adjust the size of the "Fillable" form fields if I already have info in them? Well, I think I figured that as long as I start in the Prepare Form, I can go back and forth to the document to fill out the form.
I'm sorry this is so long. I have found that in the date fields, they don't tab to the next field even though in the Prepare Form view they are in the right order on the right and when I click on the sort arrow it is to be sorted by tab. What I found is that when I entered a number in the month field and hit tab, it not only went to the wrong field, but the number ended up being in duplicate with a shadow.
In the "Fields" list on the right it lists the date fields as:
That is the correct order but when I go back to the document view the MM3#0 tabs to MM4#0, then the tab goes to DD4#0, then tab goes to DD3#0, then the tab goes to the beginning of the form at the Officer's Last Name. I went to the Prepare Form and clicked on "More > show tab numbers" and even the tab numbers don't follow either the correct tab order that is listed above, nor the tab direction when in the document view. Does anyone know what is wrong and how I can fix this. I am finding some of my text in several fields are now have duplicate ghosting going on. I have noticed when I click in Prepare Form > Fields I have the options of ordering tabs by structure, row, column, manually (this is checked), or unspecified. When I looked at all the fields listed on the right, I notice there is a:
They all highlight the same field. For ex: both Officer Name #0 and #1 highlights the same cell, the Agency Name 1#0 and Agency Name 1#1 highlights the same field, etc..
Well, I think this is much longer than I expected. But I love that I figured out how to get where y'all were talking about in order to change the font size. I put all this in also to help others with the same problem.
Thanks for everyone's help!
