How to allow a fillable PDF to be saved

I have a user that created a fillable PDF file. Now we want to send that out ot staff and allow them to fill it out and save a copy. How do we enable this feature? It currently only allows to print a filled out form or to save a blank copy.
Thanks,
Justin

In that case it's under Advanced>Extend features in Adobe Reader.
One thing to keep in mind that there is a limit of 500 uses for these forms. If they are using them internally and have less than 500 employees, they should be in the clear. You can send the form to 500 or less people and they can submit them an indefinite amount of times OR, you can send them to an indefinite amount of people but only collect the data from the form up to 500 times.

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