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Hello!

I joined the forum because I see that so many people are being assisted and their questions are being answered. I hope that I will be as lucky!

I am quite new to using LiveCycle, and I am just getting the hang of it. My employer has a large number of preexisting .doc forms that were designed to be printed and filled in with pen (I know, so old fashioned lol.) We are now looking toward making these exact forms into digital PDFs. We want the forms to be both pen AND digital friendly. Therefore, I am working with forms that have things like multiple FIB lines for writing. Whatever I do to these forms, whats underneath cannot change... and so it has to work with the multiple fill-in-the-blank lines that are already there.

I am hoping there is someone out there with the "tech-how" to help me solve my problem, and do the two things that my employer really, really wants:

(1) allow these existing pen-friendly forms to be filled in electronically

(2) mark these existing forms along the bottom left with the date they were printed off the server (and possibly with the network login of whomever printed them.)

In order to try and accomplish (1), I created text fields for each of the lines in the "additional information" and "additional details" secitons. What I do not understand is, wow do I make it so that when a person fills in the first field, it will then automatically jump the next whole word to the following field? Is there a way to "link" the four fields together? The way I have it now, the user fills in the first line, then the user must tab to the next, fill that one, tab to the next, and so on. This prevents people from simply typing their answers, which is an unfortunate hinderance.

I tried setting a field up on my own, creating it so that one large field covers the entire area. However, it does not line up properly with the lines that are already there on the page- and it looks awful.

I also see that when for example one is setting up fields for phone numbers, it is possible to make the cursor jump to the next field after the 3 area code digits. This is closer to what I want, but not exactly. I still would not want people having to push the space button to get to the end or have words cut in half and continue on the next "line." There has to be a better way!

My other issue is that, while I understand the concept of, say, javascript code, I need someone to literally SPELL OUT where I am to go and exactly what I am to do. I mean, Im not even sure what the "change event" of a text field even is. I am a smart person though, so hopefully once someone spells it out for me I will get it.

As far as (2) goes, I presently have no idea how to accomplish that task. Any help would be sincerely appreciated!

-Chris