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Whenever I try to fill in a certain part of a pdf form, it automatically fills in other parts with the same thing.

I try to change it, but it just keeps changing other lines to the same thing. The autofill option is off. Is it an error with adobe or a setting I can change?


Hannah Martin


3 Answers

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Where did this form come from? Most likely the field names are the same. If they field names are the same they are technically one field, which an have only one value, so as soon as you change the value it changes the values in all of the identically named fields.


By David Dagley   

What David said is correct, and there is no setting that would prevent that. You indicated "Adobe Reader" as the category for this question, which means that there is nothing you can do to fix this. Any fix would require Adobe Acrobat and permissions to modify the document. Your only way to resolve this is to complain to the document author or distributor and let them send you a form that can be filled in. Until that happens all you can do is print the form and then fill out the paper copy and return that.

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Karl Heinz Kremer   

Thank you! Both answers were very helpful. It was a piano audition form I had to fill out for a university.


Hannah Martin   

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