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Hi Tamilgodi,

I have looked at your posts to LiveDocs and the Adobe responses.I can't see your screenshots, but here goes...

Overall I would think that the management of forms has improved in Acrobat 9 (personal opinion).

It doesn't matter whether you are emailing the form out to users and then getting the responses back by email, OR if you are hosting the forms on Acrobat.com (or your own server).

The first step is to prepare your forms before you send them out. Open the form in Acrobat and select Forms / Distribute Form... This will automatically setup the a distribute version of the form and the responses file. Each of these will be based on your original form name (see below).

At this stage you can send out your distribute version of your form either by email or using the free Acrobat.com service. The second option does give you tracking facilities and the abilty to re-email participants.

Either way when you start to get responses back you just open Acrobat and select Forms / Compile Returned Forms... This will allow you to specify the _responses file (that Acrobat automatically generated in the first step) and all of the individual responses you have received.

When you click OK, Acrobat will open up a portfolio with all of the responses in a list. You can open each form and see the individual responses. You can also rack and stack the responses using the tools on the left.

Note that if you use the Acrobat.com service then the Tracker will automate this process for you.

I hope that helps,

Niall