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INSERT DATE IN W9 FORM

WHEN I TRY TO ENTER A TEXT BOX FOR DATE IN W9 FORM, IT WON'T LET ME EDIT THE DOCUMENT. IS THERE A WAY TO ENTER DATE IN THIS TYPE OF FILLALBE FORM?


Pat Wagner


2 Answers

Voted Best Answer

Hi Pat,

Did you get the W9 from the IRS.gov web site? Many of their forms are LiveCycle Designer PDFs and many are secured to prevent changes too. You can look under File->Document Properties to see if security (under the Security tab) has been added and to see if it is a LiveCycle PDF form (under the Description tab, PDF producer). If it is a LiveCycle Designer PDF, then you can only edit (add a field) it in LiveCycle Designer, not Acrobat.

One way you could edit the form is in Acrobat use Print to PDF- this will essentially wipe all the fields from the form so you would need to not only add the date field but add all the others too. Also, printing to PDF is called re-frying and is typically discouraged. I mention it here because it is a way you can get past not being able to add a field.

Lastly, I think the intention of that form is that you print it, fill in the date and your signature in ink, then either snail mail or scan to PDF and email it.

Hope this helps,

Dimitri

WindJack Solutions

www.pdfscripting.com


By Dimitri Munkirs   

There is no need to use all caps for posting. It makes reading the post hard to read.

Some forums use this to indicate yelling.

If one needs caps, there is a font known as orators taht use large and small caps. This is font used by speackers for their typed notes.

Have you checked the security of the form?

The IRS is using LiveCycle ES for creating most of their forms and also applies Extended Reader Rights to their forms so users with older veresions of Reader can fill out the forms and save the froms. Without this feature older versions or Reader could not save the filled in form.

I have just opened the form and cannot edit it. I can fill in the IRS provided fields. The date does not have a form field object. One can use the text annotation or the add text from the Fill & Sign panel.


George Kaiser   

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