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  1. Go to the All Tools pane on the left side of the screen and click on the Prepare a Form Tool.

    The All Tools pane with the Prepare a Form tool highlighted with a black box.

  2. The Choose an Option to Create a Form page will open. Be sure that you are on the Select a File option. Select your untagged PDF, and leave the option for This Document Requires Signatures unchecked. We will add a signature line ourselves later on.

  3. The option for Form Field Auto Detection should be left as on.

  4. Click the blue Create Form button.

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  5. Now your tool has added form fields to your entire PDF document. Field Names and Tooltips are also added, but you should check those to be sure they are accurate.

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This tool will automatically add form fields to your document and your PDF will be open in Form Editing Mode. One thing to keep in mind is that the tool will only create text box form fields. If you only use form fields for typing in text, that is okay, but if you need to create check boxes, or dates, or other complex form fields, you will need to make those manually. Field Names and Tooltips are also added automatically, but you may want to edit them.

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