Make Form Fields in InDesign - Tutorial

If you’re working as a designer, you probably end up making a form at one point or another. And if you’re like me you’d rather design it in InDesign as opposed to Microsoft Word. Well guess what you can, and this is how?

0:00 Intro
0:38 Setup
1:13 Text Fields
3:19 Combo Box
4:11 List Box
4:52 Check Box
6:05 Radio Buttons
7:26 Form Buttons
9:04 Export
9:44 Acrobat

[ccpipe]

Let me know if you'd be interested in a tutorial about some more advanced acrobat form features. It's for example possible to limited what data can be typed in a form field, limiting character amounts, only numbers etc.

[jlclearning]

Thank you for this! Very easy to follow and extremely helpful!

[kostgright]

Wow! In your video tutorial you answered all the questions I had in my mind about the interactiv forms in indesign! Well done, and thank you!

[mequable]

Very concise and to the point, thank you!

[alessiaganzerla]

Hi, the video is great. I have tried to email the form but once I press the button to submit, I am not receiving the form. Any advice?

[LindseyMiles-qbkm]

Thanks for the video! Is there a way to have text overlaying the field that would go away once clicked on/filled in? For example, having a "Enter Here" on top of a fill-in field in cases where it may not be obvious to fill in.

[nicolemuller]

Hi Kevin, Thanks for making the form fields tutorial-it was very helpful. I'd like to fines my form a little and I'm hoping you can help. I have created a field successfully but it is light blue and I'd like it white-I don't like the look of the form. I'd like it to look more like a page that users can fill out. Is there a way to make the form field white? Thanks so much.

[elisecalypso]

is there a way to add a photo button? thank you

[manbeast]

Hi there. I followed your tutorial and it was excellent. Thank you! I did have a problem though. It seems that when I open the document in Acrobat, all of the fields are blue, even after I type in the data. Did I format the INdesign document wrong?

Thanks for any advice you can give me.

[Zatracenec]

Great video. But I'm struggling to create a page with multiple fields, which will be filled all at once with the same content. :-(

[michaelaciutti]

HI, how can I please alignment the text in the box to the centre.. :) thank you

[RomboutVersluijs]

You can style the field as you want, no need for double fields one over the other

[RomboutVersluijs]

To bad they have not updated this since late 0s o so... the styling of the elements is so outdated. Also let input 100 numbers manually. Really wonder why we need to manually input a list completely.