Greetings!



I have been tasked with finding a solution to this issue. My superior would like me to create our forms similar in appearance to Adobe forms meaning the following...

Here is an Adobe sample form: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/...rm_enabled.pdf

(It's also similar to how the legacy forms text form field looks)

The highlighted boxes where text should go is what he would like to be done instead of text placeholders in our content control boxes so that users know where there should be text filled in without mucking up the form with unnecessary text.

I thought I found a solution, but it seems to be highlighting the text on entry, not the other way around.

Any help would be appreciated!

If you want Adobe forms, then you will need a PDF editor capable of creating them. Acrobat is the obvious solution.

With Word legacy forms you can choose the form field shading option. With recent versions of Word it helps enormously to use Greg Maxey's form field add-in to provide easy access to the form controls http://gregmaxey.com/word_tip_pages/..._controls.html

With content controls, you can set the option to user a style to format text typed in the fields and you can use the highlight tool to highlight the field prompt text in design mode. This will show the fields highlighted, and when typed into they adopt the style named in properties.

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