Forms

With Right PDF Reader, you can easily fill forms on your desktop or tablet device and perform tasks such as exporting form data to a specified file format, importing existing form files, resetting form fields, and highlighting form fields.

To edit form preferences

  1. Do either of the following to call out the Preferences dialog box:

    • Click the preferences shortcut located in the top-right corner of the document pane, select Preferences, and then choose Forms > Forms from the options menu to the left.

    • Choose File > Preferences and the Preferences dialog box appears. Choose Forms > Forms from the options menu to the left.

  1. Set form preferences:

General

  • Automatically calculate field values: check this box to enable automatic calculations when data is entered. See Calculate field data for details.

  • Show focus rectangle: highlight the form field with focus. If this option is selected, a dotted square appears when your click a button, a check box, a radio button, a list box, or a signature field with the Hand tool .


Show focus rectangle selected (Left) Show focus rectangle deselected (Right)

 

Highlight Form Fields

Check Show outline hover for fields when mouse enter to have form fields outlined when a cursor hovers over them.

    • Highlight form fields when document is opened. All form fields are automatically highlighted when the document is opened.

    • Show outline hover for fields when mouse enter. Form fields outlined when a cursor hovers over them.
      Click Fields highlight color, specify a color, and then use the Highlight Fields command to have form fields highlighted in the color you specify. The Highlight Fields command is enclosed in the document message bar or you can choose Form > Advanced > Highlight Form Fields.


Set Fields highlight color in aqua (Left); Use Highlight Fields to highlight form fields in aqua (Right)


Two ways to access Highlight Form Fields:
A. Form > Advanced > Highlight Form Fields
B. Document message bar > Highlight Fields

    • Click Required fields highlight color and specify an outline color of Required Note that only radio buttons, combo boxes, text fields and signature fields can be set as required fields.

 

Auto-Complete.

  • If this feature is on, the text field drop-down menu offers you relevant options based on the entries you previously entered, helping you fill out the form quickly. You may check Remember numerical data, which helps storing user entered numeric values. If this option is not selected, then only text options will be provided.

  • Edit Entry List…. Display current entries in the Auto-complete database. To remove an entry from the list, click one of them and click Remove; to clear the entire list, click Remove all.

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