adobe acrobat online

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Now let's move down the form I'll click to make more changes because we're not done yet and I'll scroll down we're going to add some more text fields across this area here and they need to be formatted for a specific purpose so let me go ahead and start by just adding a text field and it will bring up the properties dialog box I'll move it over to the side so we can see we're doing and I can set the general information again always always always name your fields call this one date I'll set my appearance I'm actually going to allow this to be Helvetica because I want this to stand out a little bit on the form and that's actually a pretty good strategy if you want information to stand out on a form use a very different typeface in the field and that will help that information really just jump off the page I'm going to set the font size though not to auto but I'll set it to 14-point I'll leave the text color alone although I could change that what we really want to determine about this field though is what the user can enter into it I don't want someone to come into this field and type sure I'd love one under date that's not what I need I need them to tell me the date that this information is filled into the form to do that I'm going to format the information in the text field for a specific purpose so I'll select a format category and the category that I'm seeking is date although I can choose from among a number of them and I'll show you some of the other of these in just a moment but for now I'll choose date and this is an example of Acrobat helping me through the process of building a form I can't apply this kind of formatting to a multi-line text field so let me click OK so I'll come over to options and you can see that multi-line is now turned off come back to format choose date select the date format that I want and I can move forward so that was Acrobat just giving me a little assistance helping you to understand that it doesn't make sense in a formatted date field to have multiple lines so first off it told me that second off it turned it off for me I went over there to confirm that and now I'm back and I can set this so that it uses the format that I'm looking for the format for the date that I want is month month day day year year year that's sort of that y2k compliance II this is an example of the format so that I can see how it will look when I enter the text into the field I'll click close and to test it come over here and I'll