How to change tab order of a Form

Victor Warner · Post by **Victor Warner** » Thu Jul 23, 2020 1:51 pm

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I have added a number of fields to a PDF (Form/Edit Form). But when the PDF is opened the tab order does not flow from top to bottom. I can display the tab order but cannot see the property which allows me to change the tab order of the fields.

Is this possible to do?

lev · Post by **lev** » Thu Jul 23, 2020 2:08 pm

Go to https://www.pdf-xchange.com/knowle ... s#Managing and click on Managing Fields.

Thu Jul 23, 2020 2:12 pm

Hello,

Thank you for the help Lev.

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Victor Warner · Post by **Victor Warner** » Thu Jul 23, 2020 5:29 pm

Thank you for the replies.

I have got to the right place but I simply cannot drag the fields into a different order. I can click on each field and select it but they simply will not move when I try and drag it up or down.

I am running PDF-Xchange under a Parallels virtual machine using Windows 10, but I do think this is the problem, as I can click on and select bookmarks and drag the individual bookmark entries into the desired order.

lev · Post by **lev** » Thu Jul 23, 2020 5:44 pm

On the Fields pane check Order by Pages and set tab order to manual.

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petepuma01 · Post by **petepuma01** » Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:42 pm

Victor - I was having the same issue. After some time, I found that you must click Select Fields on the Form menu first, then you can drag and drop the fields via the Fields pane.

Post by **TrackerSupp-Daniel** » Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:27 pm