Form Field Format

I regularly convert existing documents to fillable forms that contain all number fields for insertion of dollar amounts.  It is very tedious to change the formatting of each field to a numeric format and would like to know if there is a way (and how) to change the formatting of all the fields at once.

Are you using Acrobet or are you using the form designer that came with Acrobat?
If you are using Acrobat and creating the fields by hand, when you create the first field, Right click and choose "Use current properties as new default".
If you are using the form designer to automatically create fields, I'm not sure. Probably if you selected all fields at once then set the properties...

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