ACROBAT 11 - CREATING INTELLIGENT E-FORMS

Course details

This course covers everything you need to know about how to create forms and form workflow processes using Acrobat 11 (commonly known as Acrobat XI). Topics discussed will be the introductory concepts of electronic documents and strategies of form creation. Techniques on making Acrobat auto-detect the form fields to placing and setting up the form fields will also be taught.

The topics will expand to implement the most commonly requested form features like advanced techniques using javascript and on using the Form Distribution Process to ultimately aggregate data into the spreadsheet.

ACROBAT 11 ESSENTIALS
Acrobat 11 interface and workflow
Customising toolbars to organise workspace


ESSENTIALS OF PDF FORMS
Starting a form with the Form Wizard
Planning methods on having Adobe Acrobat to recognise forms
Easily create forms using Form Field Recognition feature
Enabling usage rights in Adobe Reader
Learn the different elements of a PDF form


CREATING FILLABLE FORMS IN ACROBAT
Capturing info via text fields
Restricting certain types of data
Creating mandatory fields
Creating multiple fields efficiently
Adding radio buttons and check boxes to request decision
Giving options with combo box
Constructing calculated text fields
Formatting text fields
Adding reset and submit buttons for ease of using the form
MANAGING FORMS
Using simplified field notations to perform simple calculations
Showing and hiding fields
Setting tab order to set field order
Adding Javascript to a field
Automatically generate date and time within a form
Using the Form Distribution Process to distribute to multiple recipients
Aggregating data to spreadsheet
Tracking forms within Acrobat
Getting started with Adobe FormsCentral