How do I create a PDF that works like an Excel Spreadsheet?

How do I create a fillable PDF that can total numbers like an Excel Spreadsheet? Need to find out how A.S.A.P.!!!!

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I use to be abel to create a PDF that I could drag onto the desktop of an email and it would show up as part of the e-mail when opened as well as an attatchement. Is there an actual procedure for creating one or is it random? Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't?

Yakandhurl wrote:
I use to be abel to create a PDF that I could drag onto the desktop of an email and it would show up as part of the e-mail when opened as well as an attatchement. Is there an actual procedure for creating one or is it random? Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't?
There is no procedure. Whether it shows up or not is purely dependent on the receivers email application and their preferences.
As always, I suggest if you want to do something like that, you should create an HTML email. There's a bit more control although it isn't foolproof either.

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Keep the pdf open in Acrobat Pro.
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How do I create a title, that behaves like a button?

Hi,
I'm using XML to load data from asp to flash. Here's the XML
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2. <news>
3. <item>
4. <headline>Flash XML Based News reader out
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http://... in the headline tag in XML
document. But this,..... I just don't know how to do that.
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2m, you are right. I should tell you about my concept. It's
all on the paper yet, because this is how I work - first I write
down everything on paper, study it and the next step in trying to
make it work on computer.
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About the article part:
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flash sends the data which article the user wants to read to
asp, asp searches in data base for the requested article and
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article.
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loaded on the article part - it's created like a gallery; the
author of the active article is bigger and if the user wants to
read the last article of other author, he/she just closes the
picture and then the images are moving in a slider way and when
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sureicandothat.com wrote:
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Hey everyone,
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Kind regards Mandy
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I am rather new to Adobe, however I am able to use most of the software (illustrator, indesign, Photoshop, LiveCycle) just fine.
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This can be done using Adobe Acrobat yes.
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With Acrobat 8 (Pro or 3D) or Acrobat 9 (Standard, Pro, Pro Extended) you can "Reader enable" a PDF.
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I open the PDF. I add a "Sticky Note", maybe add some text, and use the Options drop-down to go to Set Status > Review > Accepted.
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Open the Comments List. Looking over the Tool bar for this you will see that you can show/hide/sort and output PDF reports.
Of course, a small learning curve is involved.
Pay off is that the turnips go to market via a truck versus a horse drawn cart (fax). 8^)
Be well...

Creating a pdf that contains forms

I am trying to create a pdf that combines three pdfs and several forms that I created in LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2. I have enabled using Reader to complete the forms so that they can be saved once completed.
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I opened the form I created in Designer in Acrobat, and then I printed it to a file. That generated a post-script file, which I ran through the Distiller to create a new pdf that is unaffected by the XML problem.
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Cindy

How do I create a pdf from just one or two pages of an existing pdf?

I just purchased this product (acrobat online)
and it is not allowing me to do the things it promised, e.g. saving portions of one pdf to another, combining pages or entire docuements to create, even typing into a document (editing)! I am so frustrated - can someone please help!?

But I jut paid $89.00 for the adobe pack - if I subscribe to Acrobat Plus, will that be credited?
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:50:14 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Files.Acrobat.com How do I create a pdf from just one or two pages of an existing pdf?
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Hi,
Thank you for your subscription. If you are Acrobat Plus subscriber then you can extract the pages from the PDF file using Tools> Pages> Extract pages.
You can find "Tools" at right top once you open your PDF file in Acroat.
If you are subscriber to PDF Pack then please download Acrobat XI Plus from www.adobe.com.
PDF Pack service offers "Convert to PDF", "Export from PDF"(to Word/PowerPoint/Excel/RTF formats so that you can edit the exported files) and "Combine Files" (combine your files into a single PDF file).
Please let me know if you have any quesitons.
thank you.
hisami
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How Do i create a list that will show in a dropdown box with the list being pulled from another tab and not the cell data format junk?

How Do i create a list that will show in a dropdown box with the list being pulled from another tab and not the cell data format junk?
I currently run OS X 10.10.1
Now i have been trying to work on this for a while now and what i want to do should be simple but its apparently not.
Here is an example of what i want to happen.
I will have 2 tabs: Contact | Sales
Now Contacts will have the list of names and various information about a customer, While Sales will have one drop-down box for each Cell Row that will show the names of the person in tab contacts
for what i am wanting to do i cant use the data format pop-up menu because the list is edited everyday several times a day.
Now how do i do this, Excel can do this so how can numbers do it?

Hi Shegra,
Paste this into a applescript editor window and run it from there. In the script you may need to adjust the four properties to agree with your spreadsheet. Let me know if you have any questions.
quinn
Script starts:
-- This script converts column A in one table into an alphabetized list of popups. It copies the last cell in that column. Then reverts the column to text. It then refreshes popups in column A of a data table starting with a user defined row.
property DataEntrySheet : "Sheet 1" --name of sheet with popups to be refreshed
property DataEntryTable : "Sales" --name of table with popups to be refreshed
set copyRange to {}
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property PopValueTable : "Contacts" --name of table with popup values
set PopStartRow to {}
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set d to front document
set ps to d's sheet PopValueSheet
set pt to ps's table PopValueTable
set s to d's sheet DataEntrySheet
set t to s's table DataEntryTable
set tf to t's filtered --this records filter setting on data Entry Table
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set PopStartRow to {text returned of result}
tell pt --convert list to alphabetized popups
set ptRows to count rows
set copyRange to ("A2:" & name of cell ptRows of column "A")
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set selection range's format to text
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set selection range's format to pop up menu
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set selection range to cell ptRows of column 1 of pt
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activate application "Numbers"
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "c" using command down
tell pt
set selection range to range copyRange
set selection range's format to text
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tell t
set filtered to false
set tRows to count rows
set pasteRange to ((name of cell PopStartRow of column "A") & ":" & (name of cell tRows of column "A"))
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