Adobe forms tab order

Now the client wishes a small adjustment to the design and the tables with the checkboxes have to be moved within the layout. Unfortunately, InDesign destroys the determined tab order: - When moving the tables numerically via the control palette - When moving manually by mouse or by the arrows on the keyboard - Even when just grouping the text frames with the tables. Because the checkboxes are placed within tables, the tab order cannot be created using the Articles Panel.

Does anyone know a solution to the problem? Are there any scripts or plugins that allow you to change the tab order more comfortable? Is there an easy way to extract the checkboxes from the tables and paste on the same position within the page layout and use the Articles Panel? Changing the tab order in Acrobat Pro after each export would be too time-consuming.

You don't have to do it all over and over again. You can use the replace pages command in Acrobat which will leave the interactive layer of form fields intact and will replace only the artwork. Thanks for reaching out. The solution described there does not help with my problem. It is based on several items in the INDD layout file, such as how the Indy stories are threaded, the stacking order in the Layers panel, the Articles panel, and much more.

Definitely more than can be discussed in an online tech support forum. You're on the right track: do the job right, the first time, so that the PDF is in good shape when its exported and doesn't require tinkering and remediation in Acrobat. There's no quick and easy way to do this, and accessibility training for InDesign is complex and deep So don't look for an easy fix on this problem. The fastest way was to me to go in the order from field to field as I want them active, cut it into clipboard and place in position.

Users completing your form will often press [Tab] to advance from one field to the next. You can set the order that the user tabs through the form fields by dragging and dropping fields in the Fields pane. Was this article helpful? Yes No. Then, continue clicking in appropriate fields you want to keep in the tab order.

Mine turns an off white color, and the fields that get tabbed to are blue. Hope this helps! Hi, jmason, Thanks for your reply. I tried as you suggested. In the first round, it did skip those patches. I have painstakingly gone through the steps to manually order the tabs, yet they seem to have a mind of their own and go out of sequence each time I save the doc.

I have the tab order set to manual. I could not find a way to renumber the fields; that would make sense. How do I stop this madness? Open the Order panel and look at your page. The comment area will be boxed, and have a number. Delete its box, the order is readjusted, and now the tab order should skip over that section of the page. I have created a form that people can fill in and I have refined the tab order just like I want it, except for that after the last fillable box is tabbed over, it goes to all of the comments on the page.

Is there any way to make the Tab-Order skip over the comments on the page and only go over the fillable boxes that are part of the interactive form? Maybe it would help if you repaired the installation. Often illogical issues that occur are corrected following the repair. In my case, the fields are numbered in the correct sequence. Everything looks to be perfect. But then when I exit edit mode and actually try the forms the fields do not tab in the right order.

I have a very complex layout with tons of fields, but I would expect Acrobat to honor the field numbers no matter what. It does not. Any ideas? I am attempting to set tab order manually. In the navigation panel on the right-hand side of the screen it shows the correct order. However, the tab order is not correct on the actual form.

Can you please let me know how to fix this? By default, Acrobat tab order works on a single page.