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Let me shore this up a bit and see if I can make it cleaner while trying to answer all of your questions.
1) I am SO sorry, but I don't know of a way to rename the fields automatically from within designer. On all of my forms I have gone down the list and renamed each of the fields individually. The only way I have seen to automatically rename them is when you are using dynamic subforms and you can put a script on them to rename the fields on the RENDERED pdf form. Which doesn't help you right now. The quickest way I have learned to rename them is to click on the top most field in the hierarchy, press F2, type the new field name, press enter, then arrow down to the next field, rinse and repeat. If you or anyone finds a better way of doing this, I would be MOST glad to see the solution!
2) Yes. Once you have a field or multiple fields created and named in one form, you can copy and paste them into as many other different forms as you want. If you are using EXACTLY the same data every time, I would even suggest looking at using Fragments, as it will make your life a LOT easier.
3 & 4) Yes, you will probably have to redo the answer boxes. Converting froms from something else to Livecycle PDF is tricky and funky. It is possible to convert a Word Doc or almost anything else into a basic PDF form. The problems come in when you start looking at things like dynamic usability and managability when it comes to updates in the future. Sometimes the forms render as images with the fields on top. That certainly won't work if you want dynamic content or to make changes later; you can't change the text of the image. Other times it renders it... okay... but there might be a lot of cleanup work. Sometimes the cleanup work is so much or so time consuming that it would have been easier recreating the form from scratch anyway.
Ultimately, this is going to be a combination of your preference, and how the form will be used by your users as to how it NEEDS to be converted. Personally, I find it easier and quicker just recreating the form from scratch than trying to convert.
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