Exporting a fillable PDF form to word - but lose the text from the textboxes

[Guest]

Adobe Pro X

Hi all, We have a fillable PDF form with scrollable text boxes. Users often write a lot in the text boxes so scroll all the way down. We want to convert the completed forms to word but when doing so, none of the text in the text boxes makes it across to the word doc.

Q1: How to print so that we have a hard-copy version of the completed form that shows all the text in the text box? Our work-around answer is to convert the form to word and paste in the form fields (its a long form so not ideal) but this may be a silly way of doing it.

Q2: Is there a setting that allows  the responses in the the text boxes to carry over into the word version?

How do other people achieve this??

Thank you in advance for any advice.

[girijaAgarwal]

Hi Berocca,

Unfortunately, the data from the form fields cannot be exported to Word in Acrobat X.

We have this feature addressed and supported with our latest Acrobat version.

You can follow the instructions on page https://acrobat.adobe.com/in/en/free-trial-download.html to install and use the 7 day trial version of Acrobat DC.

Let us know your feedback here.

Regards,

Girija

[Guest]

Thank you. I will look at getting Acrobat DC.

[Aakash5C79]

Dear Girija,

I attempted the same using Acrobat DC PRO, but still the scrollable text field does not get converted correctly. It only takes the part of the visible text, and inserts that in the word document.

Anything that I could be missing here?

[try67]

You can flatten the file before exporting it to Word. That will convert the editable fields into static content, and as such they should be exported to Word just like any other content in the file.

The only issue might be that this process only keeps the visible part of the text in scrollable text fields, so you would either have to set the font size to Auto to make sure all of the text is visible or to resize the fields, before flattening the file.

[Guest]

Thank you for your reply. A colleague of mine was able to export the editable fields on her computer so it seems that she just has a newer version of Adobe.  What you have suggested is a good work-around though!