People who fill out forms are often confused about what goes where, how many characters to use in a specific field, and more. So, when you create a form, it would be nice if you could make it interactive and tell people exactly what to do. You can do this in InDesign with Tool Tips. In this video tutorial, you'll learn all about adding Tool Tips to your form fields in InDesign to create interactive forms.
…Let me show you a way that you can make the forms that you create in InDesign to…be much more usable to your end users, to…your audience, who are filling out that form in Reader.…Here we have, a schedule a campus tour form in…InDesign, and I've already created all of my form fields.…So if I open up Buttons and Forms, and I double click…here, here's one form field, a text field called name two, and here's…one for email address.…We have some checkboxes, a drop down menu…for the year that they interned, and so on.…
Let's go ahead and export this to PDF form.…I'm pressing Cmd or Ctrl + E.…We want an interactive PDF form, and we'll just accept all these defaults.…Click OK, and it opens up really big!…Let me change to fit in window with Cmd or Ctrl + 0.…Say that I'm filling this out. If I hover over this…field I guess I could understand Name and then I…start typing my name and the same thing for e-mail address.…But what am I supposed to do here?…You know, this is a little confusing and how…much room do I have for comments and so on?…
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