How To Add A Checkbox In Adobe

An interactive Word certificate does not convert to an interactive PDF document - y'all will accept to add the interactive elements manually (or permit Acrobat do information technology for you).

In Adobe Acrobat DC (this volition not work in the complimentary Reader), select the "Prepare Forms" pick in the panel on the right side, or click on "Tools" and and then select "Prepare Forms" from the list if icons.

On the side by side dialog, yous will select which document you want to process. At the bottom of that dialog you will meet something like this:

Form field detection

If yous desire Acrobat to try to detect yous fields (which is very unreliable), then the "Form field auto detection" should be set to "ON". If it's non, click on the "Change" button and change it in Acrobat's preferences. If you don't have as well many checkboxes, I would make certain that this setting is set to "OFF" - it makes your life a bit easier, trust me :)

Once you are in the grade editor mode, just add checkboxes to your document. You will probably have to resize the first one. Do that and put information technology on top of the box in your PDF file. Then bring upwards the box properties (e.m. right-click and select Properties, or double-click on the box in the editor). Now go to he "Appearance" tab and set up both the fill color and the stroke color to "transparent" - y'all already have a box in your document, at that place is no need to depict some other 1.

Once you've set up the first checkbox the way you want it, right-click on the checkbox again and select "Use current properties as new defaults" so that all checkboxes y'all generate from at present on volition friction match the 1 that you've just created.

Karl Heinz Kremer
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