Form Building & Linked Fields

Hi,
I'm building a form in Acrobat to collect bank account information. There are 10+ sections for collecting the account numbers, routing numbers, etc. for each account and each section is more or less identical to the others. I added the fields for the first section and then figured I'd just copy/paste the fields into the next section and so on. However, when all is said and done the fields in each section appear to be linked to their corresponding field in every other section (meaning when I enter a value in one field, it propagates to every other field). I'm not familiar enough with Acrobat to know what's going on here, but I definitely want each field to be unique and I'd rather not have to rename each field one by one to achieve this.
Is there some way to copy/paste fields so that the pasted fields are unique iterations of the copied fields? Or is there some way to break the link between fields after the fact?
Thanks,
Scott

Is there any way to rename a group of fields or do you have to do them one by one?
Best,
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