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How to Create an Electronic Form using Adobe Acrobat X Professional  TQF.US Computer  Services      Serving Central Maine    since 1992 TQF.US Computer Services Commercial IT Services Articles and Pages + Dell Products Microsoft Exchange Hosting Microsoft Office 365 Cisco Showcase Network Security Power Protection by APC Acronis Professional Backup Solutions Intuit GoPayment Accept Credit Cards on your Smart Phone SMB IT Best Practices Virus Removal Consumer Services Computer Removal and Electronic Scrap RecyclingSelf-rulingWebsite Hosting No Monthly Fees Success Stories for the IT Soul Data Recovery Basics How to Create an Electronic Form using Adobe Acrobat X Professional Dell Virtualization Video Series Save Money by Upgrading Your Own Hard Drive Without Reinstalling the OS, Software or Data Where to Buy Computer Furniture Online How to make your Dell Laptop run faster Hard Disk to Hard Disk Data Transfers How toReprintingFiles in Windows How to Download Driver Files without a Dedicated Internet Connection How to Install Windows XP on an HP Pavilion DV9700 CTO Notebook How to Turn On Hyper-Threading on an AMD Athlon Securely Erase a Hard Drive and Reinstall the OS The Difference Between Microsoft Publisher Student and Full Editions How to Find Hardware Diagnostic Utilities Mobile Concentration Flash Game! 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PDF stands for Portable Document Format and the standard was ripened by Adobe Labs years ago as a way to share a document wideness multiple operating systems and devices. Most computers and a growing number of phones and other devices can unshut and print .pdf files. Reading and printing the files requires the free Acrobat Reader program for any device which doesn't have Acrobat installed.   One of the more powerful features of Acrobat Professional is the worthiness to create electronic forms from a .jpg scan of a paper form. These forms can then be easily distributed wideness the web, filled in and returned in a completely paperless fashion.  The distribution full-length of the software allows results from multiple form recipients to be tracked and collated into a useful and comprehensive database.   Adobe software at up to 75% off for students, teachers, and schools!   This short tutorial will show you how to create an electronic form using Adobe Acrobat X Professional. The steps will moreover wield to other versions of Adobe Acrobat with minor differences depending on the version you are using. Refer to the Acrobat help files for increasingly information well-nigh form creation, including wide steps and database management.   We are going to use an very membership using for the Upper Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce, located in scenic Bingham, Maine. This started out as a piece of paper which has now been scanned into a .jpg file at upper resolution using a flatbed scanner. The original was then optimized using Adobe Photoshop CS5 to reduce the file size, yield the edges and convert it to woebegone and white. This step is optional, but it can be helpful depending on the quality of the original scan and the file size. You can moreover use other software such as the Picture Manager full-length of Microsoft Office 2010 to perform the same functions.   To get started on the conversion, launch Adobe Acrobat X Professional by clicking "Start" (Windows Orb), "All Programs" and "Adobe Acrobat X Pro." Alternately double-click on the desktop icon if one is available. Click "Create PDF Form or Online Form" from the "Getting Started" section of the startup menu and click "Next" to use the default option of "Use an Existing File." Note that the option to scan directly from a paper form is misogynist from this menu and may prove increasingly user-friendly for unrepealable types of scanners that are unfluctuating directly to the computer that will be performing the conversion.   Click "Browse" and navigate to the image file, and then click "Open" and "Next" to indulge Acrobat to unshut the file and scan it for fields it can recognize on the form. Click "OK" to tropical the notification window and review the fields that Acrobat located automatically. It is handy at this stage to have a paper reprinting of the form to compare to the version stuff shown on the screen. Notice that the right post has a list of the fields located by Acrobat, adn it has attempted to name these fields based on information found nearby on the form. Much of this information is erroneous in many cases, but it can be helpful on some simpler forms.   In our sample form, Acrobat was worldly-wise to snift 14 data fields and create text boxes for each of them. However, we are going to delete each of these fields surpassing creating the fields we need in this example. Feel self-ruling to download the very form used for the tutorial on the right in order to follow along. In order to remove the will-less fields, click on the first named field in the "Fields" section in the post on the right and printing "Delete" on the keyboard.Printingdelete repeatedly until all of the fields have been removed, but do not delete the "Page 1" document itself.   The first field we want to create is the Business / Town Name field. Click "Add New Field" and select "Text Field" from the waif lanugo menu. Move the mouse to the "Business / Town Name" field zone of the form, paying sustentation to where the upper left corner of the text box is located. The size and shape of the final box is unswayable by the mouse, not by the indicated size as you move the mouse. Click and hold the mouse button, and stilt the mouse to create a text box of the desired size and shape that just fills up the misogynist space for the field. Release the mouse sawed-off and name the field using the yellow "Field Name" box that appears.   Click the "Add New Field" sawed-off then and repeat the process for the other obvious fields such as address, phone and web site. Adjust the field sizes by clicking on a field and using the small corner and side handles to stilt the box into the desired shape with the mouse. Try to line the fields up and make them all the same size for a increasingly professional appearance.   When you get to the field that asks how you would like to be contacted, we will insert some trammels boxes instead of a text box. Click "Add New Field" and segregate "Check Box" from the waif lanugo menu. Move the mouse to the "E-Mail" line and click to place the trammels box. (Name the box "Email Contact" or something similar to stave using the same name that was used for the Email contact line above.) Repeat for the "Postal Mail" line.   The next section offers a nomination between two variegated options that are mutually exclusive. For this "Yes or No" option, we will use radio buttons. Click "Add New Field" and segregate "Radio Button." Fill in "RadioSawed-offChoice" with the word "Yes" and fill in "Group Name" with a unravelment of the question, such as "Website Link." Click "Add Another Button" to create the second sawed-off for the "No" wordplay and place the second button. Fill in "RadioSawed-offChoice" with the word "No." Notice that the "Group Name" has once been filled in for you, as this radio sawed-off belongs to the same group as the last one we placed.   We can now place a trammels box next to each of the categories listed at the marrow of the form, and add text fields to the three "Other" lines and the "Amount Due" line to finalize the document fields. Remember to hold the mouse sawed-off lanugo and stilt each field onto the form to make it the desired size as you place it, or to click on each field without it is placed and stilt it to the proper size. Label each field as it is created with a unique name.   Now that the fields have been created, it is important to make sure the "Tab Order" is correct. This is the order that the fields will highlight when the "Tab" key is pressed on the keyboard. Users familiar with filling in forms will expect the "Tab" key to bring them to the next field, but if the tab order is incorrect, it may not go where it is expected to. Click the "Tab Order" sawed-off next to "Sort By" in the right post and click "Show Tab Numbers." Click "OK" to tropical the tab order notification.   The tab order should progress lanugo the form in a logical sequence without wavy out of order. This is now indicated by a number in each field, starting with the number "1" in the "Business / Town Name" field at the top of the form. In my example, however, the order for the form goes from the "Email" option of the contact preference, directly to the website link yes or no field, and then when to the "Postal" option of the contact preference. It would be increasingly logical to progress through the whole contact question first, surpassing wavy lanugo to the next question and when up again.   To fix this problem with the tab order, we will transpiration the order in the right post by clicking and holding the "Postal Mail Contact" entry and dragging it whilom the "Website Link" entry. Other changes can be made as desired.   Save the file now by clicking "File" and "Save As" and "PDF." Name the file and segregate a location for it, and then click "Save." Click "Close Form Editing" to exit the form megacosm mode and see the final result of the file. Test the file with very information to see if the text size fits into the boxes and that everything flows smoothly in the form.               Original Scanned Page     (Right-click and choose "Save Target As" to save a reprinting of this document in order to follow withal with the tutorial.)      The Finished Form         The Adobe Creative Suite features several powerful programs that can be used to create professional documents, edit images and diamond websites, publications and nearly anything else. Click the link unelevated to get a self-ruling 30 day demo of the unshortened Adobe line of products. Student discounts are misogynist for up to 80% off retail.                                                                Member of the Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce   TQF.US Computer Services owner Norm Dickinson is on the Board of Directors for the Upper Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce.     Norm is a 30-year veteran of the IT world and genuine computer guru, offering local businesses a single point of contact for all of their computer-related needs.  TQF.US is Dell Partner Direct authorized and offers professional sales, support and installation of products from Dell, Microsoft, Intel and other top brands.    This website can be found at both http://www.tqf.us and http://www.fastfastcomputer.com.