Forms feature/help

In Acrobat 8 Pro you were allowed to individually select all text or all check boxes, ETC.
In 9 Pro Extended when you select all, you are not allowed to specify a specific field type.
It would be very helpful to be able to select all of a specific type field and make a global change. Having a 300 page form with various field types and having to change all text boxes from justify left to center is very painful and time consuming. 
Anyone have a solution?

There is no specific functionality for this built-in - If you are on the web, using web.show_Document() to show HTML is the best bet. On windows client server you can integarte with Winhelp through he D2kWutil.pll add on which is part of the demos.

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