How to have text which overflows textbox to another textbox

Wow...that appears to be a LOT of work for a very simple issue which other things can handle without any issue. I even watched a video put out by Adobe and they were talking about text threads and linking them that way. (just clicking on overflow character and dragging it to the next box) I guess it is a feature which is available in the Mac version which is not available in the windows version. Why?

Hi,

One solution is to use a single textfield and then allow this to expand - See Layout palette "Expand to Fit" for the height. Then if you set the page with a Flowed layout, then if it expands beyond a page Acrobat/Reader will create a new page for the content to overflow onto.

See an example here: http://assure.ly/g80MVY. Look for the textfields on Examples 3 and 4.

If you really need three textfields then you could use script to jump to the next field once the current one is full. Although this wont be the best user experience because the change in focus to the next field may happen when the user is in the middle of a word.

To implement this you would put something like the following in the full event of each textfield:

xfa.host.setFocus(xfa.form.form1.page2.textfield2); 

Hope that helps,

Niall