The Acrobat PDF Forms Course simplifies form completion and data collection, teaching you essential skills for creating electronic forms, adding fields, applying security, and using design principles. 

Learn to build and gather data with electronic fillable PDF forms using Adobe Acrobat. This course covers the basics of form design, adding form fields, setting field properties, applying form security, and using shortcuts. You’ll start with a blank form and learn to efficiently create comprehensive forms.

Create PDF Forms

• Create Forms Using Auto-Detect Form Fields
• Understand Form Fields
• Create Basic Form Fields
• Text Fields
• Check Boxes
• Radio Buttons
• List Boxes
• Dropdown Boxes

Work with Special Form Fields

• Comb Fields
• Multiple Line Text Fields
• Create Non-Printing Form Fields
• Create Print Only Form Fields
• Work with Signature Fields

Calculate Form Fields

• Create Basic Calculations
• Create Advance Calculations
• Use Hidden Fields for Calculations

Working with Form Fields

• Align, Distribute and Resize Form Fields
• Duplicate Form Fields Across Multiple Pages
• Create a Show/Hide Action

Create Buttons

• Add Navigational Buttons
• Format Label Buttons
• Format Icon Buttons
• Create a Reset Form Button
• Create a Reset Section Button
• Create a Submit Button
• Create a Menu Action Button

Finishing Touches

• Customise Form Security
• Create Reader Extended PDFs
• Make Accessible PDF Forms
• Flatten PDF Form Fields

Distribute PDF Forms for Data Collection

• Manually Distribute and Collect Forms via Email
• Use Acrobat.com to Distribute and Collect Forms
• Work with the Form Response PDF
• Export Form Responses to Excel

Private/ Group Enrolments:
This course is available for individual enrolment and Private classes (min 10 students). Please contact Lumify to organise a quote.

What do I need to know to attend?

 It's strongly recommended that you complete the Adobe Acrobat Pro Essentials course first to get a solid foundation in Acrobat's basic tools.

Ideal for professionals who want to create fillable PDFs instead of paper forms. Anyone involved in data collection who wants to improve form efficiency.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Design and create electronic fillable PDF forms within Acrobat.
• Use form fields with special functions (like checkboxes, dropdown lists, etc.).
• Add calculations to automatically tally totals or perform other functions.
• Incorporate interactive buttons for navigation, submitting, or resetting forms.
• Secure forms and control distribution.
• Collect form data efficiently and export the results to Excel.

Adobe Acrobat Pro Essentials or equivalent experience