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Create fields and buttons

Create fields and buttons

- [Instructor] All right, let's get a quick overview of how to create form fields manually in a PDF document. Now, creating and working with forms is a topic that could be covered in an entire course on its own. And, in fact, I have done that. Be sure to see my course called Acrobat DC: Creating Forms or a much more in-depth look at working with forms in Acrobat. But here I'd like to give you an overview of the process so you can get an idea of what's involved and what Acrobat is capable of. So here we have a form in which a couple of fields have already been added. You can see the fields are highlighted in this first row, indicating that they're interactive. Let's come over to the left and choose Prepare a Form. That shows us the fields on the form, and also gives us the form tools here in the left panel. You'll definitely be using some of these a lot more than others in most cases, but let's go through them here. For…

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