Need help with preparing forms

[annehatter1]

I'm a previous user of Adobe FormsCentral which, as we know, is no longer available. I'm attempting to create a PDF form and imported a template I created in Word as my starting point. I need to be able to edit the PDF after the form fields are set since I plan to make several variations of the same form. Currently, if I edit text on the template after the form fields are placed, the form fields will disappear. I want to avoid having to re-create form fields each time I need to change one word on the template itself.

When I try to edit text next to a placed form field a warning icon appears with a pop-up saying I need to "manually create an association" between the text and form field. I can't find any information on how to do this!

Any help would be much appreciated!!

Thank you!

Anne

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

Which version of Acrobat are you using to edit the form? Are these the old FormsCentral forms that you downloaded, or are you creating new forms? I often edit text in a form without problems, so we should be able to figure out what’s going on. Would you be able to share one of your forms?

[annehatter1]

Hi Karl,

Thanks so much for responding!

I'm using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, and these are new forms that I'm creating. Here's the screenshot of the message I'm receiving when I try to edit the text.

For some reason this wasn't happening for a while when I was working on the form a couple days ago, but when I re-opened this morning to continue my work it started happening again. I'm not sure if there's a setting I can turn on/off that will fix this.

Anne