31 Replies Latest reply: Nov 8, 2011 6:30 PM by George_Johnson RSS

    Acrobat 9 - Tab Order Constantly Re-orders Itself

    tcharves

      Ever since I upgraded from Acrobat Pro 8.0 to 9.0, I have had nothing but trouble with the Tab Order functionality. I have many forms that have over 200 fields on them (most of them checkbox fields). I have the tab order set to "Order Tabs Manually". I then go through the painstaking process of dragging and dropping the fields (one at a time!) in the Fields Panel to the correct order and save my PDF. Everything works great until the next time I have a change to that form.

      If I (god forbid) have to make a change to the form that requires me to either add a new field or even just to move an existing field even down one pixel to line up with other fields, it rearranges the whole page's tab order!!!!!! Ugh... VERY FRUSTRATING! I have exhausted all possible attempts to find out what, if anything, I am doing wrong.

      My question is .... Is this a bug in 9.0??? Or is there something that I can do so that I don't have to re-order 200 fields every time I make a slight alignment change to a field!!! Any help or ideas that anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated...

      Thanks,
      Tricia