Editing a PDF form- How to link fields in a text

I am trying to create a basic form for a medical practice which has various sections [e.g "history of presenting illness"] that have several lines of text each. When I try and create the form and write on the previewed highlighted fields, my cursor continuously stays on the line/field until the end and never returns to the next line/field below it. Instead it seems only to decrease the size of the font. How do I link the fields in a section of text?

You create a multiline field and then let it wrap. Your approach is wrong. If you insist on having separate entry lines, basically having a separate field for each line, then you might be able to do it with JavaScript. However separate fields for each line is not very consistent such a form.
Be careful about how you submit such a form with patient data. I assume you are just planning on saving it to a file and not submitting. The submission to an e-mail is not secure and thus not appropriate for such data. Also, you really only need to save the data for most uses other than viewing, and so saving as the data as FDF or XML (if Designer is used) is probably more appropriate to the application.

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