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Okay,  am new to Acrobat and LiveCycle.  I have gone through about 9 hours of videos and still can not find an answer to what I know I should be able to do.  Is there a way on a form to create a text field which has the ability to expand its size versus creating a scroll bar so when you print the form it is not chopped off and missing?      This is a 2 page form so a text box has the possibiltiy it could split between 2 pages.

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    NLiles-
    New Participant
    December 2, 2009

    I think the answer is yes.

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    PO_Secretary
    New Participant
    December 2, 2009

    Sorry to be a bother.  My next question is do all objects need to be

    wrapped in subform?

    Thanks so much~

    Tammie

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    NLiles-
    New Participant
    December 2, 2009

    Not sure what to tell you... I have only created one form and had to have help too. All the best to you.

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    PO_Secretary
    New Participant
    December 2, 2009

    Thanks for the answer.  I don't know what is wrong then because the flowable data

    covers the data in the text box below it.

    N
    NLiles-
    New Participant
    December 2, 2009

    They don't but it is much easier if they are.

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    PO_Secretary
    New Participant
    December 2, 2009

    Hi~

    I have been looking for the answer to this question for WEEKS now.  I used these instructions on a test page, and it worked Wonderfully.  However, when I went to my document, did the preview set up, my text underneath was covered up.  So, my question now is, do all my field boxes (text field, text, button, etc) need to be set as flowable?

    Thanks for the help.

    Tammie

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    leelooextreme
    New Participant
    November 13, 2009

    You're a life saver ! Once you put it like that it's really simple. Thanks a lot !

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    Anonymous
    November 9, 2009

    Simply unwrap the page level subforms .....you will need the Page1 level but do not create page level subforms beyond that for a flowed form. The product will create the pages as required and will place them accordingly. When you created page level subforms the product was tryiong to keep the objects on that page together so as soon as page 1 overflowed, then there woudl not be enough space for page 2 (in its as it was created) so it would add a new page and then for the overflow only.

    Make sense?

    Paul

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    leelooextreme
    New Participant
    November 7, 2009

    Hey !

    The explanations here are really great even for a dummy like me and I've done my first form, but bumped into the same problem as Nick had had. I have managed to get my form to work with the expandable fields expanding on the 2nd page, however, I have other fields below the expandable fields that should be directly below the expandable fields.  I have them on the second page and cannot move them directly below the expandable fields, it moves them to the 3rd page?

    I've read Paul's explanation, but don't understand it ,...I don't know how to move the page numbering...I attached my form, if anybody could take a look, please?

    THX,

    Polona

    P.S. The form is in Slovene, hope that doesn't matter.

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    JT01
    New Participant
    August 17, 2009

    Kind of difficult to explain thats why I gave an example, load the example into designer and check out how I set it up.

    Basically I set the group I want to have expand into its own subform.  Make sure the subform height is set as expand to fit and that all of the text fields are set as expand to fit for height as well.

    If you have any specific questions let me know.  The general one you asked should be able to be answered by reviewing the example.

    ~Josh

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