Options tab for form field properties

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Answer 1

Yes, the new method of setting the tab order really sucks, but Acrobat 11 has some changes that help. It allows you to move more than one field at a time and also allows you to disable a "feauture" that causes the tab order to automatically reorder itself when you simply move fields. I still keep Acrobat 7 around just so I can use its better tab-order setting method.
Here is a script that you can run from the interactive JavaScript console (Ctrl+J), the mouse up event of a temporary button, etc., that will set the font for all of the text fields in the form at once:
// Loop through all of the fields in this document
for (var i = 0; i < numFields; i++) {
    var fName = getNthFieldName(i);
    var f = getField(fName);
    // Set some properties of text fields
    if (f.type === "text") {
        f.textFont = font.Times;
        f.textSize = 9;
        // Other properties go here
Here is a link to the documentation so you can see what to use for the textFont property for the built-in fonts: http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.727.html
Let me know if you're using a different one and I can show you how to get the name of the font.