CREATINGINTERACTIVE FORMS*

CREATINGINTERACTIVE FORMS*

with Adobe Acrobat XIwith Adobe Acrobat XI

Mary Starke and Toni Webb

Technology Academy, Rigdon RoadMuscogee County School District

Columbus, Georgia

* ACROFORMS

OBJECTIVES

• Create interactive forms to collect data from website or email

• Convert old static forms into interactive forms• Build forms from scratch • Configure a form to send data from multiple

responses into one Excel file

Participants will be able to

pdf as in a file name, likesurvey_form.pdf

portabledocumentformat

Adobe Acrobat Adobe Reader

NOT THE SAME!

Office 2007 & 2010 will create pdfs!$$

Create and edit

FreeRead, type, print, submit Save with data

Woo hoo!

enabled

In

Acrobat

IFAdobe Reader

Adobe Acrobat

1CREATOR

2CUSTOMERS

3COLLECTOR

PEOPLE INVOLVEDPEOPLE INVOLVED

Form

Data

Electronic

CREATING ACROFORMSCREATING ACROFORMS

Acrobat - Designer Hardcopy - Scanner

Acrobat

From ScratchFrom

Scratch

1

From ExistingStatic Form

From ExistingStatic Form

2

From Scratchin Office

Application

From Scratchin Office

Application

3

- - - - - - ???

And then

Acrobat!

And then

Acrobat!

WORD!

And then

Acrobat!

And then

Acrobat!

WORD!

Native App?

Most Popular App?

THINK TABLE.THINK TABLE.

LAST FIRST DEPT

Duck Daffy Quackers

Mouse Minnie Squeakers

Tiger Aubie Cheerers

Dog Uga Barkers

Field

Record

THINK DATABASE.THINK DATABASE.

When creating a form . . .

Label:FIELD NAME

CONTROLS(Selected)

• Textbox• Checkbox• Radio Button• Drop-Down Menu

• Button

How to collect

data for a field

TWO MODES

1. Create/Edit2. View/Use