If I understand your issue properly, then I think what you need to do is check the "Allow Custom Text Entry" box on the FIELD page of the OBJECT palette. It can be found under the area where you define the list items in your drop down list.I hope this helps

I can't help with online training, although I have found this very forum very helpful just by searching and digging around, I often found someone who has asked the question before me. Also there are some (although only a few) good books available that help with just the thing you are talking about....

Thanks for responding Mike-Davies!I am trying to use DATA from say excel and use it to populate a form. The excel form would be updated and then hopefully so would the relevant areas of the form, which would do other things with the data. I am not sure that what you have suggest will accomplish th...

Did you enable the reader extensions? From what you are saying, it doesn't sound like you have and so those with Reader are having the issuesYou may need to take your form into Acrobat and "enable Reader Extensions" - the way you do this depends slightly on the version of Acrobat you are running bu...

No I have not had any responses but am still keen to find an answer

HiI have an excel spreadsheet set up to calculate average, count, max and min of some data that will be regularly altered.I would like to connect the spreadsheet cells to my form sop that this calculated data is imported into my form (created in Livecycle Designer).I have looked at numerous pages ex...

In the GrandTotal cell add a script (in the script editor) to the Calculate event (make sure the language is Javascript)ticket.rawValue*15this is assuming the tickets are always $15.00....otherwise you would replace 15 with ticketPrice.rawValue....where ticketPrice was the name of the cell receiving...

Hi thereI am just checking that I understand what you need. Are you trying to have a button on a form that submits a PDF version of the completed form and emails it to a particular address?If yes, then you are best to add a "Button" (not email button) to your form. Under the OBJECT>FIELD pallette ch...

Rather than using the "submit by email" button that is available in the standard library, you can usethe "button" and set it up to submit the form as a PDF by email.Add the button,On the OBJECT>FIELD palette, choose SUBMIT as Control type.  A SUBMIT page appears on the palette.Choose PDF from the SU...

Livecycle Designer is a bundled product (including bundled in the trial version).  So it is free when you buy Acrobat...it has been bundled with Acrobat since version 7.0 (I think...sorry Adobe staff if I have that wrong and it was with earlier versions).  I find Livecycle Designer fabulous and much...