Typed in information automatically repeated on following pages

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5 total messages Started by Gayle_E_Jordan Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:45

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Author: Gayle_E_Jordan
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:45

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I have high school students that I place in jobs for work experience. They must complete an school application that consists of about 15 pages. Most of the information consists of their name, address, phone #, etc. and this same information is required on about 10 of the 15 pages.

I have the 15 page application already created in a pdf file. Is there a way to have fillable fields of which the above mentioned information would automatically flow to the other pages once it is typed in once? Or in other words is there any way to have my students enter their personal information only ONCE and tell those fields, somehow, to fill all of the other corresponding fields?

I am willing to purchase whatever program would be necessary to accomplish this task.

Using Windows XP Home and Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Standard

Re: Typed in information automatically repeated on following pages

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Author: MikeKazlow
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 04:52

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Gayle,

This is easy to do in Acrobat Professional (which allows for the 
creation of forms). However, the Reader user will not be able to save 
his/her form with its data. Acrobat 8 will change this to allow Reader 
8 users to save form data.

Mike

Re: Typed in information automatically repeated on following pages

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Author: Gayle_E_Jordan
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:50

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Thank you for your response. I'm taking that to mean Acrobat 8 Professional is what you are telling me that will allow not only to create forms but do a "Save As" to save the individual students completed form.

Now as for the needed fields that I would like to have their entries repeated on subsequent pages, would that be a regular text field I need to drop in to the form and would I have to change anything in the properties area?

Until I get the updated version, I hope the Trial version of 8 Pro will let me practice with what I am trying to do.

Thanks Again,
Gayle

Re: Typed in information automatically repeated on following pages

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Author: MikeKazlow
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 04:04

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Gayle,


If you use the same name for a field on different pages, then filling 
out the field on one page will propagate the data onto the other pages.

Mike

Re: Typed in information automatically repeated on following pages

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Author: Aandi_Inston
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:07

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>Thank you for your response. I'm taking that to mean Acrobat 8 Professional is what you are telling me that will allow not only to create forms but do a "Save As" to save the individual students completed form.

No - you can do that already. It allows you to allow people with
READER to save forms.

>Until I get the updated version, I hope the Trial version of 8 Pro will let me practice with what I am trying to do.

There is no trial version - 8 is not released yet.

Aandi Inston

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